Lyrics:

Lyrics and music by dan penn and spooner oldham


I need your sweet inspiration

I need you here on my mind

Every hour of the day

Without your sweet inspiration

The lonely hours of the night

Just don't go my way


A woman in love

Needs sweet inspiration

Yeah, and honey that's all I ask, that's all I ask from you

I've gotta have your sweet inspiration

You know there just ain't no tellin' what a satisfied woman might do


The way you call me baby, baby

Is such a sweet inspiration

The way you call me darlin', darlin'

Sets my heart to skating

And if I'm out in the rain, baby

And in a bad situation

You know I just reach back in my mind

And there I find your sweet, sweet inspiration


Sweet inspiration

Oh, what a power

And I've got the power

Every hour of the day

I need your inspiration

To go on, to go on living

To keep on giving this way


I need your sweet inspiration

Sweet inspiration, sweet inspiration, sweet inspiration

Sweet, sweet inspiration

Sweet, sweet inspiration

I need, sweet inspiration