Better Not Look Down - Live (1981/Royal Festival Hall, London)

Folks, I've been around and I've seen some things People moving faster than the speed of sound People moving faster than the speed of bullet People moving faster than Superman all day and all night And I won't say if it's wrong, if it's right Because it's pretty fast for sound But I do have a few words I'd like to pass along The course of this song And when I think about it, it goes something like this You better not look down If you want to keep on flying Keep the hammer down And keep it full speed ahead You better not look down Or you might just wind up crying You can keep it moving If you don't look down An old girlfriend of mine showed up the other day This girl had lived for love, in love, over love And under love all of her life If the arrows from Cupid's bow that were sticking in her heart Had been sticking in her body She'd look like a butterfly And she asked me, she said "B.B., do you think I've lived my life all wrong?" And I thought about it I really didn't want to give her no bad advice So I thought about it And this is what I said You better not look down If you want to keep on flying Keep the hammer down And keep it full speed ahead You better not look down Or you might just wind up crying You can keep it moving If you don't look down You know, I was walking down the streets of sunrise one morning In London, England And I saw this long Rolls Royce Pulling slowly down the streets And in this Rolls Royce was the Queen of England Looking tired, just got back from a party And she leaned out and she said "Aren't you B.B. King?" She said, "B.B., sometimes it seems like it's so hard To try to pull things together Can you tell me what you think I ought to do?" And I thought about it You know you can't give a queen no bad advice So I thought about it And I thought about it I thought about it And I thought about it Thought about it And this is what I said You better not look down If you want to keep on flying Keep the hammer down And keep it full speed ahead You better not look down Or you might just wind up crying You can keep it moving If you don't look down Better not look down Tell us how it was, Mr. B.B. King Thank you Thank you