The Want of a Nail (with Bobby Womack)

I’ve been wrong,

I had plans so big

But the devil’s in the details

I left out one thing no one to love me

No one to love me, no one to love

For the want of a nail, the world was lost

For the want of a nail, the world was lost, yeah

World was lost, world was lost

Yeah, for the want of a nail, the shoe was lost

For the want of a shoe, the horse was lost

For the want of a horse, the rider was lost

For the want of a rider, the message was lost

For the want of a nail, the world was lost

For the want of a nail, the world was lost

World was lost, world was lost

For the want of a rider, the message was lost

For the want of a message, the battle was lost

For the want of a battle, the war was lost

For the want of a war, the kingdom was lost

For the want of a nail, the world was lost

For the want of a nail, the world was lost

World was lost, world was lost

I’ve been wrong,

I had plans so big

But the devil’s in the details

I left out one thing, no one to love me

No one to love me, no one, no one to love me

I said no one to love

You’re askin’, "What’s all this talk about horses and war?"

Put yourself in the place of the man at the forge

Day after day you live a life without love’

Til the morning you can’t take it anymore and you don’t get up

Multiply it a billion times spread it all ’round the world

Put the curse of loneliness on every boy and every girl

Until everybody’s kicking, everybody’s scratching

Everything seems to fail and it was all for the want of a nail

Tell me what else could the answer be, oh yeah

Don’t hold back now

For the want of a nail, the world was lost

World was lost

World was lost

World was lost...