Lyrics to
What Goes Around Comes Around

This version of What Goes Around Comes Around was released by Michael Jackson in 1972.

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My pocket were full and now my money’s gone
My friends come around and now they’re gone
Things come and they come and then they go
And where they go nobody knows

It’s gonna come around
What goes around comes around
It’s gonna come around
What goes around comes around

My cup over runneth with the fullness and grace
Yet people push bullshit in my face
The future can’t hold what your money can’t buy
My brother keep striving your child relies

It’s gonna come around
What goes around comes around
It’s gonna come around
What goes around comes around

The world keep on spinning does the future know?
We’re destined to screw ourselves one blow
We’ve ruined what’s pure down from nature below?
You’d better look back it’ll all be gone

It’s gonna come around
What goes around comes around
It’s gonna come around
What goes around comes around

So children please listen this world is yours
This message to deep to ignore
Your forefathers said but they did not do
The things that would show that they cared for you

It’s gonna come around
What goes around comes around
It’s gonna come around
What goes around comes around
Comes around, comes around, comes around
Comes around, comes around, comes around
Comes around, comes around, comes around
Comes around yeah

Gonna take you higher
I’m gonna take you higher
I’m gonna take you higher
Yeah yeah yeah

I’m gonna take you higher
Gonna take you higher
Yeah yeah yeah

Gonna take you higher, higher
Higher, higher, higher, higher
Gonna take you higher
Gonna take you higher

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The lyrics for What Goes Around Comes Around are defined as the words making up the song released by Michael Jackson in 1972. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to What Goes Around Comes Around have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Michael Jackson and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

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