Dolby, Thomas - The Ability To Swing Lyrics
Everybody thinking
Thinking pretty hard
Everybody thinking
'Bout singing from the heart
If you want my opinion
If you haven't got that
Ability to swing
Yeah, the ability to swing
Everybody working
Working pretty hard
Everybody working
At singin' from the heart
If you want my opinion
It isn't worth a bean
The ability to swing
The ability to swing
Dreams, take 'em away
And fo it alone, honey Rome wasn't built in a day
But now it's a ruin
The joke has worn thin
And it isn't cool to abuse
The ability to swing
Everybody talking
Talking pretty loud
Everybody looking
To stand out from the crowd
Gonna break it to you, bucko
It doesn't mean a thing
If you ain't in possession
The ability to swing
Ah, the ability to swing
Friends, send them away
Go it alone, honey Rome wasn't built in a day
Now it's a ruin, the joke has worn thin
And it isn't cool to abuse
The ability to swing
But each beat send me deeper under
Each beat send me more to sleep
Heart melts ice and heart spells danger
Don't hold your breath boy
'Cause it don't come cheap
Everybody looking
Looking pretty hard
Everybody looking
For a meaning in my art
I'll give it to you straight, boy
It doesn't mean a thing
If you haven't got the
Ability to swing
Yeah
The ability to swing
The ability to swing
The ability to swing
The ability to swing
The ability to swing
The ability to swing
The ability to swing
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Dolby, Thomas The Ability To Swing Comments
Awebo yege por el bommper. Fantasma👍👌
bumper like
Just fabulous, Eternal Classic .
15 people don't have the ability to swing....TJ STRUSKA
What a bass line...just crawls under your skin, buries into your muscles, and makes you sway.
My absolute favorite Dolby.
I got the ability to swing!!
This song should have been a major hit.
Every damn song on this album was a hit.
Wasn't lost to me, I bought the entire album without hearing anything but Airhead and I was never disappointed. If the album was considered a commercial disappointment nobody who has ever heard it cares. The artist at his very best.
Pura calidad de audio
Hot Sauce is my favotite track..
I luv this tune, man!
Thomas Dolby "Blinded Me With Science" with his "Ability To Swing"
The ability to swing still an absolutely masterpiece in 2018, just saying.
Patty Austin does a phenomenal version of this song as well.
Just heard her take on it today. She swung it out of the park
First time hearing this today It's really different, but I like it!
THE HOUSEWIFE LOVED A BANDIT when she had the ability to swing during the 1950's .. ISBN 978-0-9992719-0-2
Like sí Veniste por el bumper!
ScreamTEAM Mex
AHUEVOS QUE SI!
BUMPER FOREVER ✌😎
Sólo él nos podría haber traído hasta aquí, larga vida al buen Bumper!
ScreamTEAM Mex Simón !!!👌🏻
Bumper el mejor ingeniero
Arriba bumper
It isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing.
<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
Amazeballs!
Thomas... Gênio!
Pena q a maioria das pessoas só ouve "She Blinded Me With Science" e não vai atrás do resto...
One of my favorites... top 10 list.
This song is an overlooked gem. Was lucky to hear this on the radio when it came out and never let it out get away.
Had this on cassette. The player in car decided to eat it on a hot summer night.
I mourned the loss of that tape. I eventually found it on cd. I don't have to tell you how amazing he is. If you're here then you already know.
Aliens ate his buick, . .Green Princess (van den Pla )* ate my music !
Please tell me it was a Buick lol
Another great example of a track that gets underappreciated by the (m)asses...I, too had this on cassette(s)...nice!
right on!!!!!!!!!!
I had this on cassette too; wore it right out. :)
The ability to sneeze......
A friend of mine sneezed at the very moment the word swing was sung.
We all thought it was pretty funny. I guess it just stuck. now I can't help but sing that way. lol
George Hrab brought me here from the Geologic Podcast.
I also love this song, and hope to someday witness him unleashing it live!
one person has swung on his rope... indeed
One person has lost that ability to swing...
Takes me waaay too far back 😜
I've always loved songs with almost random, improvised sound textures and atmospheres. Thomas Dolby, a master of this technique, proves his genius at it on this track (and on the whole album).
+Mark Jones at the time he said he was listening a lot to african drum rhythms and jazz.a great album and the airhead track stands up to todays airheads.love this bloke.
Dear Mark, improvised and almost random - I can assure you he is a planer! I saw him as part of a docu - and he is a planer.
A Master Piece in its all. One day many years from now it will be known;)
yet another British musical genius
What Yo Chichear said - still gives me goosebumps after all these years. Flat freakin awesome. I never get tired of it. I have had T.D. music in rotation in my car for YEARS. The man is genius. Now lets talk about I Love You Goodbye - Ooooooo
+David Hancock Thanks David it makes me proud and happy, for that fans from T.D. listen further and enjoy ;-) saludos amigo
Goosebumps exactly!
For me : ALL TIME: THE BEST SONG FROM YOUUU cant be better
You can play it all time !!!! never lost the spirit and POWER
WHOOOOOOW
As cool as you can get.
tks ...chance to see some genius...lost my old cassette of this
Love em!!!
Forgotten track. love it
Everything about this album is pure genius. The driest, tightest mixes to ever come out of this era.
The man is a genius.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. (Best song on the album!)
Love it!! Fantastic album..
:)) thank you
aliens from THE MIGHTY MOON MEN have the ability to swing...especially the HOUSEWIFE AND THE BANDIT
Washington state just legalized .....wacko weed....now we all have the ABILITY TO SWING.....
this is such a GEM ....I did a solo act with tape recorded backups in the late 80's and this song was easily my favorite.......the aura created with the bass riff and other melodies just blows me away....seek web site for the MIGHTY MOON MEN ... thanks for the great jam
ya mon!