give in Just when I'm about to give up just when I'm about To stagger off the cliff called life I somehow find the strength to make myself go on Even
my player card Ask anybody, they'll say I'm hard I'm shittin' on 'em I'm shittin' on 'em I'm shittin' on 'em I'm shittin' on 'em I'm shittin' on ?em
Love, oh love, oh careless love Can't you see what careless love done to me? It made me wrong and leave my happy home It was love, oh love, oh careless
about It feels like, I feel like, got nothing, to talk about She dances on the stage, on TV Now life just ain't the same believe me She dances on the stage, on
Everything you said was true Everything you did was you Everything I started with her Ended on an oily stage where I wrote elegiac stanzas for you I hope
stay strong, carry it on Hey, Mama's on stage, on stage Mama's always on stage Mama's always on stage Mama's on stage Mama's always on stage Here we
boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh "Michigan seems like a dream to me now" It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw I've gone to look for America Laughing on
I am a citizen of the planet I was born here I'm going to die here Come what may I am entitled by my birth To the treasures of the earth No one must be
but they're dumb Orangutans are skeptical Of changes in their cages And the zoo keeper is very fond of rum Zebras are reactionaries Antelopes are missionaries Pigeons plot in secrecy Hamsters turn on
In my little town I grew up believing God keeps His eye on us all And He used to lean upon me As I pledged allegiance to the wall Lord, I recall my little
Old friends, old friends Sat on their park bench like bookends A newspaper blown through the grass Falls on the round toes Of the high shoes of the old
Chorus: Slip sliding away, slip sliding away You know the nearer your destination, the more you slip sliding away Whoah and I know a man, he came from
snow on the ground Look around Leaves are brown There's a patch of snow on the ground Look around Leaves are brown There's a patch of snow on the ground
Hey, schoolgirl in the second row The teacher's lookin' over So I got to whisper way down low To say, "Who bop a loo chi bop, let's meet after school
eyes could clearly see The statue of liberty sailin' away to sea And I dreamed I was flying We come on the ship they call 'The Mayflower' We come on
' groovy Got no deeds to do, no promises to keep I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep Let the morning time drop all its petals on me Life, I love
Oh, the glory of true love Is a wild and precious thing It don't grow on old magnolias Or only blossom in the spring No, the glory of true love Is it
the back of a dirty book store A plastic flag, with gum on the back fell out on the floor Well, I picked it up and I ran outside, slapped it on my window
