Supertramp - The Logical Song

[Verse]
            
When I was you

              
ng, it seemed 

            
that llfe was 

      
so wonderful, 
             
a miracle, oh 

            
it was beautif

     
ul, magical. 
             
And all the bi

             
rds in the tre

              
es, well they'

            
d be singing s

      
o happily, 
             
Oh, joyfully, 

            
oh, playfully,

     
 watching me. 
             
But then they 

             
sent me away, 

            
to teach me ho

           
w to be sensib

le, 
             
logical, oh, r

           
esponsible pra

ctical. 
            
And they showe

              
d me a world w

            
here I could b

          
e so dependabl

e, 
             
oh, clinical, 

            
oh, intellectu

     
al, cynical. 

[Chorus]
             
There are time

              
s when all the

           
 world's aslee

p, 
            
the questions 

            
run too deep f

              
or such a simp

      
le man 
             
Won't you plea

              
se, please tel

              
l me what we'v

   
e learned? 
            
I know it soun

            
ds absurd. Ple

              
ase tell me wh

    
o I am. 

[Verse]
            
Watch what you

              
 say or they'l

            
l be calling y

                    
ou a radical, 
            
a liberal, oh 

           
fanatical, cri

minal. 
              
Oh, won't you 

            
sign up your n

              
ame, we'd like

            
 to feel you'r

        
e acceptable, 
             
respectable, o

            
h, presentable

     
, a vegetable!

 

[Chorus]
             
There are time

              
s, when all th

          
e world's asle

ep, 
              
the questions 

            
run too deep f

              
or such a simp

   
le man 
             
Won't you plea

              
se, please tel

              
l me what we'v

   
e learned? 
              
I know it soun

            
ds absurd. Ple

              
ase tell me wh

     
o I am.