One of these days I’m gonna stop my listening
Gonna raise my head up high
One of these days I’m gonna raise my glistening wings and fly
But that day will have to wait for a while
Baby I’m only society’s child
When we’re older things may change
But for now this is the way, they must remain
I say I can’t see you anymore baby
Can’t see you anymore
No, I won’t see you anymore, baby
When I call you up, your line’s engaged
I have had enough, so act your age
We have lost the time that was so hard to find
And I will lose my mind
If you won’t see me
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me
See me, feel me, touch me, heal me
I’m a servant of fate in this garden of truth
A humble recruit of the taffeta booth
Where all things are known but few are revealed
Sins are forgotten and sickness is healed
For five dollars the flower is free
Free as a bird
It’s the next best thing to be
Free as a bird
Oh the last thing I gave her was the bird
And she returned the favor with a few selected words
I don’t have to worry now what’s being overheard
The last thing I gave her was the bird
B-birds the word now when a bird bird
B-birds a word now when -a bird bird bird
B-bird’s a word now well-a bird bird bird
B-bird’s the word oh well-a bird bird bird
B-bird’s the word a-well-a bird bird bird
B-bird’s the word a-well-a don’t you know ‘bout the bird
Well ev’rybody’s talkin’ a-bout the bird a-well-a bird bird
B-birds the word
Say the word and you’ll be free
Say the word and be like me
Say the word I’m thinking of
Have you heard the word is love?
Come along with me
Down into the world of seeing
Come and you’ll be free
Take the time to find the feeling
See everything on it’s own
And you’ll find you know the way
And you’ll know the things you’re shown
Owe everything to the day
I am the coming of a new age
Stained we still stand tall
I am the coming of a new age
And I will never fall
I bear the questions of a new time
Seen but never heard
I’ve seen the comings of a new time
Get ready, ‘cause here it comes
There’s a new voice calling
You can hear it if you try
And it’s growing stronger
With each day that passes by
Oh yeah, oh yeah
And knowing that you would have wanted it this way
I do believe I’m feelin’ stronger every day
Yeah, yeah, yeah
After what you’ve meant to me
Ooh baby now I can make it easily
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I know that we both agree
The best thing to happen to you
Is the best thing that happened to me
Yeah, yeah, yeah
And if she should tell you “I love you”
And if she tempts you with her charms
Tell her no no no no no-no-no-no
No no no no no-no-no-no
(Don’t take her love for your arms)
No no no no no
Don’t hurt me now for her love belongs to me
No no no no, I don’t smoke it no more
I’m tired of waking up on the floor
No, thank you, please, it only makes me sneeze
And then it makes it hard to find the door
And that cigarette you’re smoking
It scares me half to death,
Open up a window
And let me catch my breath
When you’re feeling down and your resistance is low
Light another cigarette and let yourself go
This is your life, don’t play hard to get
It’s a free world, all you have to do is fall in love
Play the game - yeah
Everybody play the game of love
Everybody plays the fool sometime
There’s no exception to the rule
Listen, baby
It may be factual, may be cruel
I ain’t lying
Everybody plays the fool
The old fool is leaving!
Serafimo—away with this pretence!
You cannot speak—but kiss me in my husband’s absence!
Poor fool, he makes me laugh!
Hahahahahaha…
Time I tried to get a better better half!
Poor fool, he doesn’t know!
Hohohohohoho…
If he knew the truth, he’d never, ever go!
They’re coming to take me away ha-ha
They’re coming to take me away ho-ho hee-hee ha-ha
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I’ll be happy to see those nice young men
In their clean white coats
And they’re coming to take me away ha-haaa
Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far
Shine on you crazy diamond
Pile on many more layers and I’ll be joining you there
Shine on you crazy diamond
And we’ll bask in the shadow of yesterday’s triumph
Sail on the steel breeze
Come on you boy child, you winner and loser
Come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine