Phil Ochs - I Shoulda Known Better lyrics

This is Eric Andersen up here again
I"m Phil, he's Don i'd like
I wanted to bring him up here
To do one thing which
Is very much out of character
With this whole program
(What's that?) It's a song - since
This is a songwriter's hoot
I'd like to do a song by
The two most successful songwriters
In the world, paul
McCartney and John Lennon no rel - Okay
No relation

So I should have known better
With a girl like you
That I would love everything that you do
And I do, hey hey hey and I do

So I never realized what a kiss could be
This could only happen to me
Can't you see, can't you see?

That when I tell you that I love you, oh
You're gonna say you love me too, oh
And when I ask you to be mine
You're gonna say you love me too

So, I should have realized a
Lot of things before
If this is love you've gotta give me more
Give me more, hey hey hey give me more

And when I tell you that I love you, oh
You're gonna say you love me too, oh
And when I ask you to be mine
You're gonna say you love me too

So, I should have realized a
Lot of things before
If this is love you've gotta give me more
Give me more, hey hey hey give me more

I wanted to do that, for
The main reason was that, to make
A point, that it's all not nonsense
But I think, you know, that
In all of what's going on in music today
What's going on in
Folk music, I think the Beatles
Are the most exciting thing
Really musically going on

And that's what I'd like to make
A point about writing topical songs
That I always try to do
That when I'm writing songs
Like the first song I did, "That's
What I Want to Hear"
Is a very pop-oriented melody that's
Why we did it
To show you that pop-oriented songs aren't
Necessarily bad that's pretty exciting music