This Bitter Earth

Aretha Franklin · Take A Look: Complete On Columbia [2011]

This, this bitter earth

What fruited past

What good is love

That no one wants to share



And if my life, my life is like the dust

That haunts the [unclear]

Tell me what good am I

Heaven, heaven, heaven, heaven only knows

Oooooo



This, this bitter

Well, I found it can be, be so, be so cold

Today, oh

And before you know it

Too soon you've grown old



But while a voice within me cries

Someone, someone may answer my call

And this bitter earth, this bitter, bitter earth

May not, may not be so bitter after all



While a voice, while this voice within me cries

Someone, someone may answer my call

And this, this bitter, this real cold earth

Mmmmm may not be so bitter after all

Mmmmmm