Try a Little Understanding lyrics

You keep speakin' of freedom

But what happens when you don't agree?

Don't talk on about freedom

When you don't know what freedom means

Hear a song, you think wrong, you condemn it

In your mind, you're not kind at all

So it seems, greater means only one thing

That with you we must agree

Come on, wake up children, can't you see

That you are not as free as me?

Try a little understandin' (Try a little understandin')

Try a little gentleness (Try a little gentleness)

You must be able, deny the fable

When all you do is follow

You keep tellin' your brothers

That man can only fight for what is right

Don't tell me about brothers

If you can't join the family

When a man, takes a stand, you decry him

Hear him speak, think he's me, that's not all

You use force as a source of revoltin'

'Cause with you it seems we must agree

Come on, wake up children, can't you see

That you are not as free as me?

Try a little understandin' (Try a little understandin')

Try a little gentleness (Try a little gentleness)

You must be able, deny the fable

When all you do is follow

You keep speakin' of freedom

But what happens when you don't agree?

Don't talk on about freedom

When you don't know what freedom means