[Play C6 at Am/C]

[Verse 1]
            
When I was you

              
ng, it seemed 

             
that life was 

    
so wonderful
             
A miracle, oh,

             
 it was beauti

      
ful, magical
             
And all the bi

             
rds in the tre

              
es, well, they

             
'd be singing 

    
so happily
             
Oh, joyfully, 

             
oh, playfully,

  
 watching me

[Verse 2]
              
But then they 

            
sent me away, 

             
to teach me ho

         
w to be sensib

le
             
Logical, oh, r

             
esponsible, pr


actical
              
And then they 

            
showed me a wo

              
rld where I co

            
uld be so depe


ndable
             
Oh, clinical, 

             
oh, intellectu

    
al, cynical

[Bridge]
             
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, but

              
 please tell m

           
e who I am

[Verse 3]
            
I said, now wa

              
tch what you s

              
ay or they'll 

             
be calling you

   
 a radical
             
A liberal, oh,

            
 fanatical, cr

#
iminal
              
Oh, won't you 

            
sign up your n

              
ame, we'd like

             
 to feel you'r

     
e acceptable
             
Respectable, o

             
h, presentable

     
, a vegetable

Oh, take, take, take it, yeah