Can't Take It With You When You Go - Mike Love

You can’t take it with you when you go

No you can’t take it with you when you go

Collect your silver, collect your gold

But in the end what will you have to show

'Cause you can’t take it with you when you go

I was born at quarter to two in the morning

In the best suit I ever worn

And with my first breath I sang out a warning

To the world I had arrived

And I cried out when I first saw the light

I was blinded

I had been so in Love with the darkness

But adjustment is just part of life

And everywhere I looked everything was changing

Every moment a new face was appearing

And steering me, clearing my path to the next phase of the maze of unfolding

awakening,

shaking me

And then I drank from the heart of my Mother

And heard the song from the soul of my Father

And further I flew and into this new world of opportunity, moving me,

forming and

informing me so

Tell me, teach me, show me everything I need to know

'Cause you can’t take it with you when you go

I was a punk little teenager, tormenting my Mother with all the mistakes I made

But I never once put a possession over a person that’s just how I was raised

And I labored in a full time job for minimum wage

Yeah but my savior was this guitar said aloha to these new slave traders

I’ll never again waste another drop of perspiration on a corporation,

no matter what they pay

And I don’t need no Christmas bonus I don’t need no raise

Cause it won’t do you no good in your grave

No it won’t do you no good in your grave

Break your back, go on, slave away

To count your coins up at the end of the day

But it won’t do you no good in your grave

And when I grew into what they refer to as a man, I was told I had to have a

plan

Never really understood why, but I told them I would try

Seems this system is just designed to make you want shit you don’t really need

Fill your heart with greed

Plant a seed of separation in your soul

Just remember happiness can not be bought or sold

And you can’t take it with you when you go

Children listen please, let me say my piece

Growing up is a disease, don’t you catch it

Can’t take it with you when you go

No you can’t take it with you when you go

Collect your silver, collect your gold

But in the end what will you have to show

'Cause you can’t take it with you when you go

You can take my Love with you when you go

And I’ll take your Love with me when I go

And hand in hand we’ll leave this land and go wherever the trade winds blow

And we’ll take this love with us when we go.