Ball and Chain
Janis Joplin Lyrics

S-sitting down by my window, Oh, looking at the rain.
I am sitting by the window, watching the rain pour down.

S-sitting down by my window now now, All around I felt it, All I could see was the rain.
I am still sitting and now I realize that the rain has not stopped and it is surrounding me.

Something grabbed a hold of me, honey, Felt to me honey like, lord, a ball and chain.
I felt like something grabbed me and now it feels like I am carrying a heavy burden that I cannot get rid of.

Yeah! hey! you know what I mean, But it's way too heavy for you, You can't hold it tomorrow.
I know you understand, but you cannot handle this weight tomorrow.

Say, whoa, whoa, honey, it can't be Just because I got to want your love Please please please please, whoa please, please.
Please do not leave me just because I want your love.

Whoa, honey it can't be Just because I got to need you daddy. Please don't you let me down, no, please, lord!
Please do not disappoint me just because I need you.

Here you gone today, but I wanted to love you, I wanted to hold you, yeah, till the day I die, Till the day, till the day, Yeah! hey! hey! all right!
I loved you and wanted to hold you forever, even though you are gone now.

Say, whoa, whoa, honey this can't be Not anything I ever wanted from you daddy Tell me now, now, now, now, oh, tell me now, yeah.
Please tell me why this is happening, as it is not what I wanted from you.

I say, whoa, whoa, honey this can't be No, no, no, no, no, no, no yeah yeah, hey! And I want someone that could tell me, tell me why Just because I got to want your love Honey, just because I got to need, need, need your love
I still cannot believe you left me and need someone to explain why. Just because I wanted and needed your love does not justify this heartbreak.

I said I don't understand, honey, but I wanna chance to try Try, try, try, try try try try Honey when everybody in the world wants the same damn thing When everybody in the world will need the same lonely thing When I wanna work for your love, daddy. When I wanna try for your love, daddy.
I may not understand why you left, but I am willing to try and work for your love.

I don't understand how come you're gone, man. I don't understand why half the World is still crying, man, when the other half of the world is still Crying too, man, I can't get it together. I If you got a cat for one day, man I mean, if you, say, say, if you want a Cat for 365 days, right you aint got him for 365 days, you got him for one Day, man. well I tell you that one da N, better be your life, man. because, you know, you can say, oh man, you Can cry about the other 364, man, but you're gonna lose that one day, man, And that's all you've got. you gotta call that, man. That's what it is, man. if you got it today you don't want it Tomorrow, man, cause you don't need it, 'cause as a matter of fact, as we Discovered in the train, tomorrow never happens, m Ts all the same fucking day, man.
I do not understand why so much of the world is crying when you left me. If you have something for only one day, that one day should be your entire life. You should not wait until tomorrow for it because tomorrow never comes, and it is all the same day.

So you gotta, when you wanna hold a sigh, You gotta hold him like it's the last minute in your life, baby. You gotta hold, whoa, whoa, hold him 'Cause someday some weights gonna come on your shoulders, babe, It's gonna feel too heavy, it's gonna weigh on you, It's gonna feel just like a ball, ball, ball, oh daddy, And a chain.
When you hold onto something or someone, you should hold it like it is the last minute of your life. Because someday the weight of the responsibility may become too heavy, and it will feel like a ball and chain dragging you down.