Lissen - Dr. John

Everybody has an advisor

Who advises the advisor

And nobody thinks for their-self Who Thinks for everybody else

Gotta listen to learn

Learn to listen

If you ever want to know all that stuff your missin

Listen close take heed

You might hear a little something that you need

Listen up listen at me

Better learn to listen

Better learn to listen

If your use to someone lookin over your shoulder

How you gonna grow any wiser and older

Now if you don’t listen close at

Your teacher how can they understand and reach ya

Gotta listen to learn and

Learn to listen

If you ever wanna know all that stuff your missin

Listen close take heed

You might hear something you need

Listen up listen at me

Learn to listen

Better learn to listen

Facts of life come

Down to common sense

Now what you don’t learn in school you might learn from experience hard knocks

could

Break a head hard as wood

Open mind gonna catch anything

It understood

Gotta listen to learn

Got to learn to listen

If you ever wanna know all that stuff your missin

Put down that beer, turn off the TV, turn off that FM and the CD better listen

at me

Better learn to listen

Take that cotton out your ear

Stuff it in your mouth

Crack back, chill out, that’s what I’m talkin about

Turn down that VH1 and MTV

Turn off your Walkman turn down the B E T. Learn to listen

You gotta listen to learn

Sometime you act like a know it all, better be real