THE ANIMALS - YEAR OF THE GURU lyrics

rate me

My leader told me to jump in the river

The river was deep and the weather was winter

After a sailer very kindly saved me

My leader told me, you'd better take it easy

I took it so easy my leader called me lazy

Through the lack of red meat

Everything was getting hazy

Friends looked at me and said,

Man, you gotta be crazy

Oh, oh leader

My leader said son you'd better get yourself together

never mind the fools who know what we're getting into

But a forty mile walk would do us both a world of good

and he sat down and watched me take off down the road

Well, I walked so far my feet began to bleed

If this was good for me I just couldn't see it

A motorist picked me up and said

Look man, you must be crazy

Oh, oh leader

Oh, oh leader

My leader came to see me in a hospital bed

Well at least I really knew that my leader really cared

After giving me a second-hand roach

He said where's your donation man,

It's all for a good cause.

He left me all alone to work the riddle out

But I just couldn't make it so I began to shout

They stuck a hypodermic deep down into me

Said, look out nurse I think we got a loony

Oh, oh leader

Okay baby follow me now

Follow your leader

All right

Now here I sit in a state-run asylum

Limitless, friendless but much more together

I decided to do some good book readin'

About the art of people leadin'

Now I'm the leader and they're being led

What's the matter if they're crazy till you hear what I've said

Being the leader is really where its at

But just how long can a good thing last

Oh, oh leader

Oh, oh leader

Now listen to this baby

This is the year of the guru

Now the thing to do is to ask yourself

What can a guru do for me?

Then you say to yourself

I gotta get a guru