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"What Goes Around" is a song recorded by The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr. It was released by Starr on his 1992 critically acclaimed Time Takes Time album. The recording was produced by Don Was and written by Rick Suchow.

On this track, Starr is lead vocalist and plays drums, with members of both the Bonnie Raitt band and Tom Pettyand The Heartbreakers joining him; personnel includes Benmont Tench on piano and organ, James 'Hutch' Hutchinson on bass, Michael Landau and David Grissom on guitars, and Andrew Sturmer, Roger Manning, Andrew Gold on backgound vocals.

The song was the album's finale and featured a Hey Jude-like repeating end chorus. Time Magazine wrote this about the song, "What Goes Around features Harrison-like guitars gently weeping in harmony, an extended coda a la Hey Jude, and at the end a cryptic spoken message. The phrase is either 'All the same' or 'I buried Paul'."[1]


The lyrics to the song are:

She was good, she was fine
And she made me think she was mine all mine
Till I looked in her eyes
And I read that girl between her lies, well
Something happened on the way to paradise
But every heartache has it's day
And every cheatin' heart pays the price
Yeah, yeah
What goes around comes around
Baby don't look back when you hear that sound
What goes around comes around
And I won't be here when it all comes down on you
It all comes back to you
She said please take my hand
Let me lead your heart to the promised land
But the girl had a plan
And she left me there for another man, well
Everybody plays the fool now and then
But no exception to the rule
That it all evens out in the end
Yeah, yeah
What goes around comes around
Baby don't look back when you hear that sound
What goes around comes around
And it won't be long 'till it all comes down on you
It all comes back to you
Goes around, comes around, goes around
Goes around, comes around, goes around [2]


References

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  1. ^ Corliss, Richard "It's In His Blood", Time Magazine Vol. 139 No. 25 June 22,1992
  2. ^ ©1992 Suchow Music. Used by Permission.