Tell me before I waltz out of your life
Before turning my back on the past
Forgive my impertinent behavior
But how long do you think this pandemime can last?
Tell me before I ride off in the sunset
There's one thing I never got clear
How can you claim you're a savior
When those who oppose you are stepped on or cut up
Or simply disappear?
Tell me before you get onto your bus
Before joining the forgotten brigade
How can one person like me say
Alter the time-honored way the game is played?
Tell me before you get onto your high
For it's just what you expect me to do
I don't care what the bourgeoisie say
I'm not in business for them
But to give all my desk amisados
A magical moment or two
There is evil
Ever around the governmental system
Of government quite incidental
So what are my chances of
Honest advances, I'd say, lo
Better to win by admitting my sin
Than to lose with a halo
Tell me before I seek worthier pastures
And thereby restore self-esteem
How can you be so short-sighted
To look never further than this week or next week
To have no impossible dream?
Allow me to help you slink off to the sidelines
I'll pay your fair giftory cheers
But first tell me who'd be delighted
To witness me tackle the world's greatest problems
From war to pollution
No hope of solution
Even if I live for one hundred years
There is evil
Ever around the governmental system
Of government quite incidental
So go if you're able
To somewhere unstable
And stay there
Whip up your hate
In some tottering state
But not here, dear
Is that clear, dear?
Oh, what I'd give for a hundred years
But the physical interferes
Every day more
Oh, my creator
What is the good of the strongest heart
In a body that's falling apart
A serious flaw
I hope you know
I hope you know that