Lyrics & Music: Paul Kantner

Lyrics: Grace Slick



He's stronger by talk than by sight

But by sight he'll know you

You buy him a ride  he'll know you

Somebody's bound to lead you

Sooner or later you're bound to go



You don't know what this man feels like

He doesn't care if you think you know

Somebody's bound to lead you

If that man got a smile on his face

Sooner or later you're bound to go

                        bound to go



Let me tell you bout a man I knew

He roamed the depth and the breadth of China

On a horse that he grew himself

From the bark of a tree on mainland China

And he had a time yes he had the time of his life in China

He carried strife and harmony to all the people on the mainland



And there was a warlord who rode the murky depths of China

With a shotgun in his hand and he wondered where the people'd gone to

Have you got the time to listen while i sing this song

I had the time to listen to the man go right and wrong and right thru

China



chorus



And it ain't what you want it's what you need

No it ain't what you want it's what you need

And I'd rather be here than yesterday

It ain't what you want it's what you need



And there was a lady  she rolled around in town in China

And there was a lady  she rolled and rolled

And she killed a war  she made the warlord rise in time

She sat him down  took him down  and she laid him out for just one more

round



Drunk in a beautiful garden  celebration

Here comes the Khan  Storm the palace  look for Alice

Rising Oriental girl  diving back for just one more pearl



chorus



And it ain't what she wants it's what she needs

She don't want your sound  she wants your country

And I'd rather be next year than on the way to Bombay

It ain't what you want it's what you need