I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate A poet, a pawn and a king I've been up and down and over and out And I know one thing That's life (that's life) that's what people say You're riding high in April Shot down in May But I know I'm gonna change that

Waitin' on a woman Sittin' on a bench at West Town Mall He sat down in his overalls and asked me You waitin' on a woman I nodded yeah and said how 'bout you He said son since nineteen fifty-two I've been When I picked her up for our first date I told her

Since you had to go I've been on a roller coaster ride Up and down I go Over you, about to lose my mind It's out of control A click clacking my heart keeps making an ominous sound That chain keeps dragging me up just to drop me back down I think I'm over