Good times, bad times You know I had my share When my woman left home With a brown eyed man Well, I still don't seem to care In the days of my youth I was told what it was to be a man Now I've reached the age I've tried to do all those things the best I

I was brought up to believe The universe has a plan All is for the best Believe in what we're told Until our final breath The joy and pain that we receive We are only human It's not ours to understand Some will be rewarded

"And be a simple kind of man Baby be a simple kind of man And you can do this, oh baby, if you try Mama told me, when I was young "Said sit beside me, my only son And listen closely, to what I say And if you do this, it will help you some sunny day" Oh

Why, why, why, why? It was always me versus the world Until I found it's me versus me Just remember what happens on earth stays on earth! We gon' put it in reverse Darling I told you many times And I am telling you once again Just to remind you

The day the freebird fell Oh, I remember it well So many cried when Ronnie died He never said farewell What he'd say in a southern song Stories told still here long I was just a teenage boy on my way to school Freebird fell Mama mad at me for me 'cause I