I'm Just A Mortal Man - David Ruffin

You know what I thought

Just how helpless I really am (Thinking about it)

Oh lord, my hair is turning grey

I get a new wrinkle every day

Guess I’m just a mortal man

Let me tell you all about it

I cannot make myself live forever

(Can't live forever)

Oh, God knows I tried

I can’t even make one little flower grow

It takes water to do that, look

Cull back the years, God knows I tried

But the hands on the clock keep ticking on by

One day young, oh Lord, and the next day you’re old

Now listen to this

Oh I thought I was such a super lover (Super lover)

Did the best I could

And from my side darling I thought you would never, never go away (Never,

never go away)

That’s my sole distrait

And this ego of mine have been betrayed

As I stared at empty walls, I found I’m no super lover at all (No super lover

at all)

Well, you see love built your bad, bad end

Left another scar on this mortal man

But let me get on with my story

Now I don’t know if I’ll ever get to go to heaven

Oh, but listen to me

But you never know, even I, even I may get to go (Never, never, never know)

Oh lord

Seal the wings that I could grow

I’ll leave this human skin all far down below

And say goodbye, goodbye world to being a mortal man (Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye)

But listen to me

But in the mean time I’m still down here doing the best I can

Chained, chained, chained, chained to being just a mortal man

Can you hear me singin'?

Oh lord, guess I’m just a mortal man