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1	[Norman:]							1
	1, 2... 1, 2, 3, 4, Ow!						1, 2... 1, 2, 3, 4, Ow!
1							Eddie: People moving out, people	1
2	[Instrumental intro with "psychedlic sounds."]						moving in. Why, because of the color	2
3							of their skin.	3
4	[Eddie:]						Run, run, run but you sure can't hide. An eye	4
5	People movin' out, people movin' in.						for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.	5
6	Why? Because of the color of their skin.						Vote for me and I'll set you free. Rap on, brother, rap on.	6
7							Dennis: Well, the only person talking about love	7
8	[Eddie & Melvin:]						thy brother is the...(preacher.)	8
9	Run, run, run but you sure can't hide.						And it seems nobody's interested in	9
10							learning but the...(teacher.)	10
2	[Eddie:]							2
3	An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.							3
4	Vote for me and I'll set you free.							4
5	((Rap on, brother, rap on.))							5
6								6
7	[Dennis:]							7
8	Well, the only person talkin' about							8
9	Love thy brother is the ((preacher)).							9
10	And it seems nobody's interested							10
11	In learnin' but the ((teacher)).							11
	Segregation, determination,						Segregation, determination,
11	Demonstration, integration,						demonstration, integration, Aggravation,	11
12	Aggravation, humiliation,						humiliation, obligation to our nation.	12
13	Obligation to our nation.						Ball of confusion. Oh yeah, that's what the	13
14							world is today. Woo, hey, hey.	14
15	[All:]						Paul:	15
16	Ball       of confusion.						The sale of pills are at an all time high.	16
17							Young folks walking round with their heads in the sky.	17
18	[Dennis:]						The cities ablaze in the summer time.	18
19	Oh, yeah, that's what the world is today.						And oh,               the beat goes on.	19
20	(Ooo!) hey-ey.						Dennis:	20
21							Evolution, revolution, gun control, sound of soul.	21
22	[Paul:]						Shooting rockets to the moon, kids growing up too soon.	22
23	The sale of pills,						Politicians say more taxes will solve everything.	23
24	Are at an all time high.						Melvin:	24
12	Young folks walkin' 'round,							12
13	With their heads in the sky.							13
14								14
15	[Eddie:]							15
16	Cities ablaze in the summertime.							16
17	Oh-ahhh, the beat goes ((on)).							17
18								18
19	[Dennis:]							19
20	Evolution, revolution,							20
21	Gun control, the sound of soul.							21
22								22
23	[Eddie:]							23
24	Shootin' rockets to the moon,							24
25	Kids growin' up too soon.							25
26								26
27	[Dennis:]							27
28	Politicians say mo' taxes,							28
29	Will solve everything.							29
30								30
31	[Melvin:]							31
	And the band played on.						And the band played on.
25							So, round and around and around we go.	25
26	[Short instrumental break.]						Where the world's headed, nobody knows.	26
27							[Instrumental]	27
28	[All:]						Oh, great GoogaMooga, can't you hear me talking to you.	28
32	(So), 'round and around and around we go.							32
33	Where the world's headed to, nobody knows.							33
34								34
35	[Instrumental break.]							35
36								36
37	[Dennis:]							37
38	Oh, great Googa-Mooga,							38
39	Can't you hear me talkin' to ya?							39
	Just a ball of confusion.						Just a ball of confusion.
29	Oh, yeah, that's what the world is today.						Oh yeah, that's what the world is today.	29
30	(Ooo!)(Yeah-yeh.)						Woo, hey, hey.	30
31							Eddie:	31
32	[Eddie:]						Fear in the air, tension everywhere.	32
33	Fear in        the air,						Unemployment rising fast, the Beatles new record's a gas.	33
34	Tension everywhere.						Dennis:	34
35	Unemployment risin' fast,						And the only safe place to live is on an Indian reservation.	35
36	The Beatles' new record's a gas.						Melvin:	36
40								40
41	[Paul:]							41
42	And the only safe place to live,							42
43	Is on an Indian reservation.							43
44								44
45	[Melvin:]							45
	And the band played on.						And the band played on.
37							Eve of destruction, tax deduction, city	37
38	[Dennis:]						inspectors, bill collectors,	38
39	Eve of destruction, tax deduction,						Mod clothes in demand, population out of	39
40							hand, suicide, too many bills,	40
41	[Paul:]						Hippies moving to the hills. People all over the	41
42	City inspectors, bill collectors,						world are shouting, 'End the war.'	42
43							Melvin:	43
46	[All:]							46
47	Mod clothes in demand, population out of hand,							47
48								48
49	[Dennis:]							49
50	Suicide, too many bills.							50
51	Hippies movin' to the hills.							51
52								52
53	[Eddie:]							53
54	People all over the world							54
55	Are shoutin', "End the war."							55
56								56
57	[Melvin:]							57
	And the band played on.						And the band played on.
44							[Instrumental]	44
45	[Instrumental break.]						Great GoogaMooga, can't you hear me talking to you.	45
46							Sayin'... ball of confusion.	46
47	[Dennis:]						That's what the world is today, hey, hey.	47
48	Great Googa-Mooga,						Let me hear ya, let me hear ya, let me hear ya.	48
49	Can't you hear me talkin' to you.						Sayin'... ball of confusion.	49
50	It's a ((ball of confusion)).						That's what the world is today, hey, hey.	50
51	That's what the world is today.						Let me hear ya, let me hear ya, let me hear ya,	51
52	(Yeah-yeah.)						let me hear ya, let me hear ya.	52
53							Sayin'... ball of confusion.	53
58	[Otis:]							58
59	wo, let me hear ya, let me hear ya,							59
60	Let me hear ya.							60
61								61
62	[Eddie:]							62
63	Ball of confusion.							63
64	(Oh-haaa.)							64
65								65
66	[Dennis:]							66
67	That's what the world is today, hey, hey."							67
68								68
69	[Eddie:)							69
70	Let me hear ya, let me hear ya,							70
71	Let me hear ya, let me hear ya,							71
72	Let me hear ya, ball of confusion.							72
73	[Fade.]							73
74	[All:]							74
75	That's what the world is today.							75
76								76
77								77
78	[BALL OF CONFUSTION (THAT'S WHAT THE WORLD IS TODAY)]							78
79	[Written by: Barrett Strong & Norman Whitfield]							79
80	[Performed by: The Temptations[1]-1970[2]]							80
81	[Produced by: Norman Whitfield[3]]							81
82	[Appears on: Ball of Confusion (US EP)-1970 & (UK EP)-1970, Greatest Hits,							82
83	Vol. 2-1970[4], Anthology-1973 & 1975, 20 Golden Greats-1980, Emporers of							83
84	Soul-1994, Greatest Hits-1997, Millennium Edition-2000, Gold-2005, Live in							84
85	London (DVD)-2007, Playlist Your Way-2008, et al.]							85
86								86
87	[1]"Ball of Confusion" is one of the Temptations' most covered songs.							87
88	Notable Covers are, The Neville Brothers, Tina Turner, Love & Rockets,							88
89	Widespread Panic, Duran Duran, Anthrax, Forcefield, Edwin Starr, The							89
90	Undiputed Truth, Tesla (on Reel to Reel), Whoopie Goldberg (et al. in the							90
91	movie, Sister Act), Sampled on UNKLE's Never, Never Land album in the song,							91
92	"Eye for Eye," amongst others.]							92
93								93
94	[2]Lead vocals: Dennis Edwards, Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, and Melvin							94
95	Franklin. Background vocals: Dennis Edwards (tenor), Eddie Kendricks							95
96	(tenor), Paul Williams (tenor), Melvin Franklin (bass), and Otis Williams							96
97	(baritone). Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers (Bob Babbitt provides the							97
98	baseline for the intro). When they first saw the sheet music for this song,							98
99	all but Dennis Edwards thought they wouldn't be able to pull off the							99
100	rapid-fire delivery required. So Dennis was assigned the difficult lines.]							100
101								101
102	[3]Norman Witfield's dramatic count at the start of every recording for							102
103	synching purposes only, was left in the mix for this record.]							103
104								104
105	[4]Transcribed from the track on this album.]							105

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