Featuring Michelle Butters on lead vocals, this song of Grahame's has been recorded before, but this version brings a remarkably authentic reggae feel to it, making it almost impossible to listen to and remain static!
Like much reggae, though, underneath the happy-go-lucky surface lies a serious message.
"This is a song about choices. Eventually we all need at some stage to decide who we are going to serve."
lyrics
LYRICS
When you're down and feeling low
And all your problems just won't go
You think the answer is in drugs
Or maybe the bottom of a bottle
CHORUS:
You know you can't serve two masters
It's got to be one or the other
You have to make up your own mind
Just who it's gonna be
And when you're down for the final count
And all your mates have gone to ground
You call out but no one hears you
You're all alone and feeling blue
REPEAT CHORUS
The answer ain't in a bottle of booze
Or sex you had with someone last night
Have the courage to turn it all around
Rely on Jesus go for higher ground
REPEAT CHORUS
When you're down and feeling low
And all your problems just won't go
You feel the answer is in drugs
Or maybe the bottom of the bottle
REPEAT CHORUS
credits
from Streets Of Hope,
released April 1, 2019
Written by Grahame Ryan
Michelle Butters - lead vocals
Grahame Ryan - electric guitars
DC Cardwell - bass, drum programming, organ, percussion
Angela Osborne & Janelle Brown - backing vocals