The Song Fight Bulletin Board

You Got to be Kind
by Nobody, et al.

Donny got to be a baseball player
Now he lives in the city
Susie got to be a doctor's wife
Never that smart, but damn she's pretty

Ronald got to be a used car salesman
Sold me my old Ford.
Jimmy got to be a TV Preacher
Beggin' for money for the Lord

My poor girl, you never got that far
Just a dirty old house and a rusted out car
You could have gone but you stayed for me
Is this all that you wanted to be?

The corner of 96th and Vine
Is as high as I could climb
You've been left behind
You could have soared so high
If only you had tried
All you got to be was kind

Sally got to be a guidance counselor
Keepin' kids on track
Peter got to be a big rig trucker
He drove away and he never came back

You've been here since the plant closed down
In a dirty old house in a rusted out town
You never complain but it's because of me
This can't be what you wanted to be.

Dust blows down into the valley and settles
Like you settled.
Dreams deferred, they burn
Like a fire underneath a copper kettle
You could have ruled the world
If you hadn't been my girl
Of all the things that you could be
Why the hell did you choose me?

The corner of 96th and Vine
Is as high as I could climb
You've been left behind
You could have soared so high
If only you had tried
All you got to be was kind

Cheryl got to be a history professor
She knows all there is about all that there was.
Oscar got to be a government man
I'm not really sure what he does

I know you. You can turn this page
The lights are still up on this rusted-out stage
Darlin, your kindness is wasted on me
But kind's not a bad thing to be
As long as you don't lose your dreams

You Got To Be Kind - by Intentionally Left Bank

Whatever they say
Whatever they do
Whatever they think
Is just isn't you, no you don't fit the shoe

Whenever they call
Whenever it's right
Whenever they want
That's when you are through, so you walk into the night

You got to be good
You got to be kind
You got to beware
And out of your mind most of the time

You got to behave
And watch what you say
You got to be quick
And do it their way, everyday

You got to be kind

Woke up this morning with nothing to do
Log into my forum to check my reviews
You got to be kind
You got to be kind
Woke up this morning, won’t believe what I saw
Review forum in an epic, an epic flame war

This guy thinks my drum tracks could use better sticks
He says my vocals are sunk too low in the mix
You got to be kind
You got to be kind
But what of the songwriting? He didn’t bother to say
I guess the production just got in his way

In the other corner, making a fuss
Offers no details, gave my song a C+
You got to be kind
You got to be kind
I don’t know what he’s thinking
I mean I can’t read his mind
The one thing I do know is you got to be kind
You got to be kind

So you don’t like my singing; you don’t like the blues
Quit your complaining and go write some reviews
You got to be kind
You got to be kind
It don’t matter if you nitpick or you’d rather troll
Some reviewing’s better than no feedback at all
While you’re writing just keep one rule in mind
You got to be kind
You got to be kind

One person’s refuse is another man’s find
The one thing that you got to do
Is try to be kind

(12-bar blues in F)

You Got To Be Kind - William Lane

Ive found the little things in life
make it all worth while
make you truly smile

The saddest thing I ever saw
was a heart made of stone
that ended up alone



You got to keep your head
when your talking with the angels
You got to see the road you left behind
Its hard to keep the darkness down
but do it if your able
And most of all you got to be kind



It takes a very gentile soul
to see what others see
to know them differently

To rise above the shady grey
and try to catch the sun
and not come all undone



You got to keep your head
when your talking with the angels
You got to see the road you left behind
Its hard to keep the darkness down
but do it if your able
And most of all you got to be kind
Yeah most of all you got to be kind

You got to be kind to me
you got to be kind to me

Why? Oh, Why?
Can't you look me in the eye?
You mean it to be
Warm and carefree
Why? Can you tell me why?

You got to be kind to me
You got to be kind to me

Why did you lie?
You looked straight into my eyes
You meant it to be
Hidden from me
Buy why, oh why, did you lie?

Tuners Union

i don't mind
any given type of hostility
from each according to ability

but i can't find
some kind of moderate agility
there between it and civility

so on the side
we keep things steeped in reality
wading in deep marginality

it's time, confide
you tell about the times in brutality
we'll tell about the new morality

please only those with something
good to say
cause every one else it seems
always turns away

please only those with nowhere
left to go
cause nobody else it seems ever
wants to know

so you got somethin to say
something on your mind?
a matter of words
that you so sharply defined

it comes down to you
to be so inclined
so just let me say
you know you got to be kind

if it slips in
leave it where it's been

if it comes down
leave it on the ground

if it comes on
let it get to gone

if another then
do it once again