Mott The Hoople - Your Own Backyard Lyrics
(dimucci/fasce)I've been sitting here thinkingWhen i started out drinkingI went on to the dope surely just to change my lifeI cried a tear and a beer for meI lost everything near and dear to meNamely my children and my wifeI've an idea of having a good timeWas sitting up there with my head between my kneesWell i knew everything there was to knowEverything except which way to goI cried oh god please take me will you take me please(yeah) many a time (well i) swore up and downI don't need none of this junk that's a floating roundI could quit - let me finish what i've gotAfter all this stuff sure costs a lotThen i get my feet back on the groundNow i can't tell nobody how to live their lifeEven though inside we're all the sameAll these things are toys i was playing withYou know, you know we're all losers in the end(well now) since i've been straightI haven't been in my cupsI ain't shooting downs i ain't using upsYou know i'm still as crazy as a loonEven though i don't run out and cop a spoonThank the good lord god well i've had enoughI've got a friend and his name is robertsonHe told me "don't need to be stoned to know a friendBelieve me you're all beautiful people just the way you areTell me, what has that stuff done for you so far?"I've been sitting here thinking i've been winking i've been blinkingWell i don't have to sit around no more on the nodWith my head in the air (you know)I can do anything I want to do, and i can do it straight i can do it so much better nowIts gotta startRight here in your own back yardYes it's gotta start back your own back yardEverybody has their own beautiful back yardYou might find oil wells in your own back yardYou might find anything in your own back yardYou might even find my shadow in your own back yard(who knows what you might dig up)
