“A Little Bit of Soul”

Lyrics

Well I make it alright
It’s under control
I said I make it alright
With just a little bit of soul

And I said she is the only reason
She helps me to see
If she asked me for my soul
I’d give it to her for free

Well I make it alright
Everywhere I go
Just need to make it to tonight
Baby take me down slow

You might be an angel
But I bet you’re just a thief
But all you have to say to turn me around
Say “baby, come to me”

And I said
She is the only reason
She helps me to see
If she asked me for my soul
Baby you know I’d give to you for free

Copyright © 2008 Karl Ward

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So there was this point in my life when I was partying a little too hard. I decided to take a break, not just from partying, but also from New York and basically the entire life I had at that point. I quit my job, I bought a car, I wandered around the South, I wrote songs–good work if you can get it. I mostly stopped going to bars (which was good) and stopped dancing and getting crazy (which was bad). But there was one night when I managed to go out to a dance party in a basement bar called Guernica (it doesn’t exist anymore) and I had a wonderful time with a certain girl. Now you know how there are movies where someone has a crush on a someone in high school and then they meet years later in a big city? That’s the one. So like the next day I drove all the way from New York to Georgia with this wonderful night in my head. I sat down at my parents’ house with my Strat plugged straight into a four track tape recorder and wrote this song in about ten minutes. That’s long enough to come up with the chords, the turnarounds, and write down the words.