So Strong
Labi Siffre Lyrics
The higher you build your barriers
The taller I become
The further you take my rights away
The faster I will run
You can deny me, you can decide
To turn your face away
No matter 'cause there's
Something inside so strong
I know that I can make it
You thought that my pride was gone, oh no
There's something inside so strong
Oh, something inside so strong
The more you refuse to hear my voice (ooh-weh ooh-weh ooh-weh ooh-weh)
The louder I will sing
You hide behind walls of Jericho (ooh-weh ooh-weh ooh-weh ooh-weh)
Your lies will come tumbling
Deny my place in time, you squander wealth that's mine
My light will shine so brightly it will blind you
Because there's
Something inside so strong, strong
I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone, oh no
There's something inside so strong
Oh, something inside so strong
Brothers and sisters
When they insist we're just not good enough
Well we know better
Just look him in his eyes and say
We're gonna do it anyway
We're gonna do it anyway
There's something inside so strong
And I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone, oh no
There's something inside so strong, oh
Something inside so strong
Brothers and sisters
When they insist we're just not good enough
Well we know better
Just look him in his eyes and say
We're gonna do it anyway
We're gonna do it anyway
We're gonna do it anyway
We're gonna do it anyway
Because there's
Something inside so strong, (something inside so strong)
I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone, oh no, oh no
There's something inside so strong
Something inside so strong (oh oh yeah)
I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone, oh no, oh no
There's something inside so strong
Oh oh, something inside so strong
Oh oh, something inside so strong
Oh oh, something inside so strong
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
Written by: LABI SIFFRE
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
To comment on specific lyrics, highlight them
Labi Siffre (born June 25, 1945) is an English poet, songwriter and singer.
Born the fourth of five children, at Queen Charlotte's Hospital Hammersmith, London to a Barbadian / Belgian mother and a Nigerian father, Siffre was brought up in Bayswater and Hampstead and educated at a Catholic monastery school, St Benedict's School, in Ealing.
Jazz and Blues records provided his musical education: Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and Charlie Mingus among many. Read Full BioLabi Siffre (born June 25, 1945) is an English poet, songwriter and singer.
Born the fourth of five children, at Queen Charlotte's Hospital Hammersmith, London to a Barbadian / Belgian mother and a Nigerian father, Siffre was brought up in Bayswater and Hampstead and educated at a Catholic monastery school, St Benedict's School, in Ealing.
Jazz and Blues records provided his musical education: Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and Charlie Mingus among many. Jimmy Reed and Wes Montgomery loomed large as guitar influences; Billie Holiday, Jimmy Reed and Mel Tormé as vocal influences.
In July 1964 he met his partner Peter Lloyd. Under the Civil Partnership Act 2004, they became legally recognised partners when the Act entered into force in December 2005.
His first six albums of songs were released between 1970 and 1975, and a further three albums between 1988 and 1998. In the early 1970s he had solo hits with "It Must Be Love" (No. 14, 1971) (later covered by and a No. 4 hit for Madness, for which Siffre himself appeared in the video); "Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying" (No. 11, 1972); and "Watch Me" (No. 29, 1972).
In 1978 two of his songs, "Solid Love" (performed by Siffre) and "We Got It Bad" (co-written and performed by Bob James) reached the UK finals of the BBC's A Song for Europe.
His 1987 hit "(Something Inside) So Strong", which reached No. 4, an anti Apartheid anthem and more, has remained enduringly popular and is an example of the political and sociological thread running through much of Siffre’s lyrics and poetry since the single “Thank Your Lucky Star” and the album “For the Children” (1973). It won the Ivor Novello Award for "Best Song Musically and Lyrically", and has been used in Amnesty International campaigns, a television advertisement and Alice Walker's film against female genital mutilation: Warrior Marks. His stance on civil and human rights has further enhanced his reputation.
His play, "DeathWrite", staged at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff 1997 was later televised.
For rapper Eminem's hit single "My Name Is," hip hop record producer Dr. Dre wanted to use a sample (written by Siffre and including Siffre on electric piano) of his song "I Got The..." for the rhythm track. Siffre, objected to what he describes as "lazy writing" (in the sleeve notes of the re-mastered CD of the source album Remember My Song): "Attacking two of the usual scapegoats, women and gays, is lazy writing. If you want to do battle, attack the aggressors not the victims".
Eminem and Dr Dre had to edit to get the sample cleared. The original bootlegged version can be downloaded on file-sharing networks.
Searching for expression beyond the "limitations of songwriting" he wrote his first poems in 1984. Three books of his poetry have been published: "Nigger" 1993, "Blood on the Page" 1995 and "Monument" 1997.
His poetry addresses "wide ranging themes of theology, childhood, supposed adulthood, sociology, love, hate, language, critical thinking and the lack of it, communication, various "isms" and the methods by which the mainstream dismisses the marginalised and the dispossessed".
He released a new album, The Last Songs, in 2006.
Album Discography:
* Labi Siffre (1970)
* The Singer And The Song (1971)
* Crying Laughing Loving Lying (1972)
* For The Children (1973)
* Remember My Song (1975)
* Happy (1975)
* So Strong (1988)
* Man of Reason (1991)
* The Last Songs (1998)
* Monument (Spoken Word) (1998)
* The Last Songs (Re-mastered) (2006)
Cover versions:
* Madness covered It Must Be Love in 1981. The song reached #4 in the UK charts and #33 in the U.S. in 1983. Labi Siffre also made a cameo appearance in the music video.
* (Something Inside) So Strong was covered by Kenny Rogers in 1989 (and became the title track to a hit album). The song was also covered by Vanessa Bell Armstrong in 1988 and again by a host of gospel artists as a tribute to Rosa Parks in the mid-90's.
* The Flying Pickets covered the song in their 1994 Album, The Warning.
* Michael Ball also released a cover of the song in 1996, which reached Number 40 in the UK.
* It has also been covered by Rik Waller in 2002, when it was released as a single.
* Fatboy Slim sampled Rosetta Hightower’s cover of Labi Siffre’s “A Little More Line” (from his 1970 debut album Labi Siffre) for the song “That Old Pair of Jeans” on Fatboy's 2006 album “Why Try Harder”
* Kanye West used a sample of "My Song" in "I Wonder" on his album "Graduation".
* Jay-Z sampled "I Got the"—the same song Eminem sampled for "My Name Is"—for his hit "Streets Iz Watching."
* RJD2 covered "Bless the Telephone" passing it off as his own song "Making Days Longer" on his album Since We Last Spoke.
Born the fourth of five children, at Queen Charlotte's Hospital Hammersmith, London to a Barbadian / Belgian mother and a Nigerian father, Siffre was brought up in Bayswater and Hampstead and educated at a Catholic monastery school, St Benedict's School, in Ealing.
Jazz and Blues records provided his musical education: Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and Charlie Mingus among many. Read Full BioLabi Siffre (born June 25, 1945) is an English poet, songwriter and singer.
Born the fourth of five children, at Queen Charlotte's Hospital Hammersmith, London to a Barbadian / Belgian mother and a Nigerian father, Siffre was brought up in Bayswater and Hampstead and educated at a Catholic monastery school, St Benedict's School, in Ealing.
Jazz and Blues records provided his musical education: Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and Charlie Mingus among many. Jimmy Reed and Wes Montgomery loomed large as guitar influences; Billie Holiday, Jimmy Reed and Mel Tormé as vocal influences.
In July 1964 he met his partner Peter Lloyd. Under the Civil Partnership Act 2004, they became legally recognised partners when the Act entered into force in December 2005.
His first six albums of songs were released between 1970 and 1975, and a further three albums between 1988 and 1998. In the early 1970s he had solo hits with "It Must Be Love" (No. 14, 1971) (later covered by and a No. 4 hit for Madness, for which Siffre himself appeared in the video); "Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying" (No. 11, 1972); and "Watch Me" (No. 29, 1972).
In 1978 two of his songs, "Solid Love" (performed by Siffre) and "We Got It Bad" (co-written and performed by Bob James) reached the UK finals of the BBC's A Song for Europe.
His 1987 hit "(Something Inside) So Strong", which reached No. 4, an anti Apartheid anthem and more, has remained enduringly popular and is an example of the political and sociological thread running through much of Siffre’s lyrics and poetry since the single “Thank Your Lucky Star” and the album “For the Children” (1973). It won the Ivor Novello Award for "Best Song Musically and Lyrically", and has been used in Amnesty International campaigns, a television advertisement and Alice Walker's film against female genital mutilation: Warrior Marks. His stance on civil and human rights has further enhanced his reputation.
His play, "DeathWrite", staged at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff 1997 was later televised.
For rapper Eminem's hit single "My Name Is," hip hop record producer Dr. Dre wanted to use a sample (written by Siffre and including Siffre on electric piano) of his song "I Got The..." for the rhythm track. Siffre, objected to what he describes as "lazy writing" (in the sleeve notes of the re-mastered CD of the source album Remember My Song): "Attacking two of the usual scapegoats, women and gays, is lazy writing. If you want to do battle, attack the aggressors not the victims".
Eminem and Dr Dre had to edit to get the sample cleared. The original bootlegged version can be downloaded on file-sharing networks.
Searching for expression beyond the "limitations of songwriting" he wrote his first poems in 1984. Three books of his poetry have been published: "Nigger" 1993, "Blood on the Page" 1995 and "Monument" 1997.
His poetry addresses "wide ranging themes of theology, childhood, supposed adulthood, sociology, love, hate, language, critical thinking and the lack of it, communication, various "isms" and the methods by which the mainstream dismisses the marginalised and the dispossessed".
He released a new album, The Last Songs, in 2006.
Album Discography:
* Labi Siffre (1970)
* The Singer And The Song (1971)
* Crying Laughing Loving Lying (1972)
* For The Children (1973)
* Remember My Song (1975)
* Happy (1975)
* So Strong (1988)
* Man of Reason (1991)
* The Last Songs (1998)
* Monument (Spoken Word) (1998)
* The Last Songs (Re-mastered) (2006)
Cover versions:
* Madness covered It Must Be Love in 1981. The song reached #4 in the UK charts and #33 in the U.S. in 1983. Labi Siffre also made a cameo appearance in the music video.
* (Something Inside) So Strong was covered by Kenny Rogers in 1989 (and became the title track to a hit album). The song was also covered by Vanessa Bell Armstrong in 1988 and again by a host of gospel artists as a tribute to Rosa Parks in the mid-90's.
* The Flying Pickets covered the song in their 1994 Album, The Warning.
* Michael Ball also released a cover of the song in 1996, which reached Number 40 in the UK.
* It has also been covered by Rik Waller in 2002, when it was released as a single.
* Fatboy Slim sampled Rosetta Hightower’s cover of Labi Siffre’s “A Little More Line” (from his 1970 debut album Labi Siffre) for the song “That Old Pair of Jeans” on Fatboy's 2006 album “Why Try Harder”
* Kanye West used a sample of "My Song" in "I Wonder" on his album "Graduation".
* Jay-Z sampled "I Got the"—the same song Eminem sampled for "My Name Is"—for his hit "Streets Iz Watching."
* RJD2 covered "Bless the Telephone" passing it off as his own song "Making Days Longer" on his album Since We Last Spoke.
More Genres
No Artists Found
More Artists
Load All
No Albums Found
More Albums
Load All
No Tracks Found
Genre not found
Artist not found
Album not found
Search results not found
Song not found
Classicme065069
The higher you build your barriers
The taller I become
The further you take my rights away
The faster I will run
You can deny me, you can decide
To turn your face away
No matter 'cause there's
Something inside so strong
I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone, oh no
There's something inside so strong
Oh, something inside so strong
The more you refuse to hear my voice (ooh-weh ooh-weh ooh-weh ooh-weh)
The louder I will sing
You hide behind walls of Jericho (ooh-weh ooh-weh ooh-weh ooh-weh)
Your lies will come tumbling
Deny my place in time, you squander wealth that's mine
My light will shine so brightly it will blind you
Because there's
Something inside so strong, strong
I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone, oh no
There's something inside so strong
Oh, something inside so strong
Brothers and sisters
When they insist we're just not good enough
Well we know better
Just look him in his eyes and say
We're gonna do it anyway
We're gonna do it anyway
There's something inside so strong
And I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone, oh no
There's something inside so strong, oh
Something inside so strong
Brothers and sisters
When they insist we're just not good enough
Well we know better
Just look him in his eyes and say
We're gonna do it anyway
We're gonna do it anyway
We're gonna do it anyway
We're gonna do it anyway
Because there's
Something inside so strong, (something inside so strong)
I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone, oh no, oh no
There's something inside so strong
Something inside so strong (oh oh yeah)
I know that I can make it
Though you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone, oh no, oh no
There's something inside so strong
Oh oh, something inside so strong
Oh oh, something inside so strong
Oh oh, something inside so strong
Accardianca Hughman
While I love the song and the strength it inspires, the video depicts all that is wrong with the world and weakens us. War, animosity, hate..it's all violence, bullying at its worst. Strength is something inside us comes from within and extends to those around us, only those who are too weak to tap in to strength do these kinds of things. I feel sorry? Pity in some ways that these people must be burdened with such hate there is no room for life...love is dual natured, it loves to love, it loves to hate, except that is not love, that's a human concept passed on from one generation to the next. Give me life anyway, mostly it's beautiful but this violence, it's unacceptable. This latest virus shows just how under valued we are as a valuable species, capable of doing all sorts, humans are amazing but we are limited by capitalism and democracy. No one needs anything other than basic decency and the ability to meet each individuals needs while still taking care of the economy, if that is truly valuable anymore, is it really worth it?
We are wasting our precious lives following this disorder and discriminatory way of living, and with apparently no choice. Coercion is illegal on a domestic level for a reason, so none of us end up being domestic slaves.....but that's all that we are right now yet by now we should be self sufficient.
Privacy laws have been breached beyond comprehension, no one has the right to distribute your information without permission but in doing so it's a form of entrapment getting into contracts. We have no choice but to conform, CON words state so much! As do dis words, dis~cip~line is to dis someone by telling them that they are not acceptable as they are and must change to meet their needs, like clipping round the head which is a line that should never be crossed. Those with needs to act out aggressively don't really deserve to live on this beautiful planet. But they would make pretty fireworks displays.
People first! Sing loud people, sing proud,
We need be the change we wish to see.
Thepeoplestrustfoundation@outlook.com
Will help us all. For more information, please email.
Clipperking Gaming
I just came from re watching Gavin and Stacey and didn’t expect the comments I have read below
No matter what guys you can do it whatever you are trying to achieve big or small !
No matter how difficult things are or will get for you never give up
I hope and wish for you all to make it to where you want to be and accomplish everything you want in life
You got this ! ❤️
rach
I dedicate this to all the freedom fighters that can see through the BS in 2020/21 and beyond. Stand Up Stand Strong 💪👍
Anita D’Ambrosie
Amen 🙏🏽
Wendy Simpson
Amen Rach 🙏 ❤
A smith
@Rebecca J I believe in science/medicine a million times more than God or any kind of messiah.
Rebecca J
Yes! We will keep fighting! God is on our side! This will be one of the most horrific times in history but cleave close to Jesus and you will be fine!
Shannon Earehart
AMÉN 🙏🏻
S Slattery
I play this song every day to give me strength through a very contentious divorce.Just gets into my bones and gives me a lift everytime I hear it ❣
Anne McKay
Nick Flynn or that person killing your love. Stay strong your happiness will come
Nick Flynn
When we marry we could never imagine love dying. Courage my friend,
Ash Thom
Suffering with ptsd this is one of the songs that makes me get up and fight everyday❤️