What Good Am I Solomon Burke What good am I some like all the rest If I just turn away when I see how you're dressed If I shut myself off so I can't hear you cry What good am I? What good am I if I know and don't do If I see and don't say if I look right through you If I turn a deaf ear to the thunderin' sky you tell me What good am I? What good am I if I say foolish things And I laugh in the face of what sorrow brings If my hands are tied must I not wonder within Who tied them and why and where I have been. Where have I been What good am I while you softly weep And I hear in my head what you say in your sleep And I freeze in the moment like the rest that don't try What good am I? What good am I If I watch you cry If I said a lady Why you slowly die You be somebody to try Someone to