Better Not Look Down

I've been around and I've seen some things

People moving faster than the speed of sound

Faster than the speeding bullet

People livin' like Superman, all day and all night

And I won't say if it's wrong, or I won't say if it's right

I'm pretty fast myself

But I do have some advice to pass along

Right here in the words of this song

You better not look down

If you want to keep on flying

Put the hammer down

Keep it full speed ahead

You better not look back

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

That girl had lived in love and for love

And over love and under love all of her life

If the arrows from Cupid's bow

That had passed through her heart

Had been sticking out of her body

She would have looked like a porcupine

And she asked me

"B.B., do you think I've lived my life all wrong?

And I said, "The only advice I have to pass along

Is concealed in the chorus of this song"

Girl, better not look down

If you want to keep on flying

Put the hammer down

Keep it full speed ahead

Better not look back

Or you might just wind up crying

You can keep it movin'

If you don't look down

I was walkin' down the street

At sunrise one mornin' in London, England

And there was a very large Rolls-Royce limousine

Pullin' slowly along the street

And in that Rolls-Royce was the Queen of England

Looking tired, just got back from a party

And the Queen leaned out and she said

"Aren't you B.B. King?

She said, "Oh, B.B., sometimes it's so hard

To pull things together

Could you tell me what you think I ought to do?"

And I said

"You better not look down

If you want to keep on flying

Put the hammer down

Keep it full speed ahead

Better not look back

Or you might just wind up crying

You can keep it moving

If you don't look down"

You better not look down

If you want to keep on flying

Put the hammer down

Keep it full speed ahead

Better not look back

Or you might just wind up crying

You can keep it moving

If you don't look down

You better not look down

If you want to keep on flying

Put the hammer down

Keep it full speed ahead

Better not look back-