User:Rsooch/What Goes Around
"What Goes Around" is a song recorded by The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr. It was released by Starr on his 1992 critically acclaimed Time Takes Time album. The recording was produced by Don Was and written by Rick Suchow.
On this track, Starr is lead vocalist and plays drums, with members of both the Bonnie Raitt band and Tom Pettyand The Heartbreakers joining him; personnel includes Benmont Tench on piano and organ, James 'Hutch' Hutchinson on bass, Michael Landau and David Grissom on guitars, and Andrew Sturmer, Roger Manning, Andrew Gold on backgound vocals.
The song was the album's finale and featured a Hey Jude-like repeating end chorus. Time Magazine wrote this about the song, "What Goes Around features Harrison-like guitars gently weeping in harmony, an extended coda a la Hey Jude, and at the end a cryptic spoken message. The phrase is either 'All the same' or 'I buried Paul'."[1]
The lyrics to the song are:
- She was good, she was fine
- And she made me think she was mine all mine
- Till I looked in her eyes
- And I read that girl between her lies, well
- Something happened on the way to paradise
- But every heartache has it's day
- And every cheatin' heart pays the price
- Yeah, yeah
- What goes around comes around
- Baby don't look back when you hear that sound
- What goes around comes around
- And I won't be here when it all comes down on you
- It all comes back to you
- She said please take my hand
- Let me lead your heart to the promised land
- But the girl had a plan
- And she left me there for another man, well
- Everybody plays the fool now and then
- But no exception to the rule
- That it all evens out in the end
- Yeah, yeah
- What goes around comes around
- Baby don't look back when you hear that sound
- What goes around comes around
- And it won't be long 'till it all comes down on you
- It all comes back to you
- Goes around, comes around, goes around
- Goes around, comes around, goes around [2]