Sometimes I think to myself
Why am I me and not somebody else?
(Oh Oh)
When I look up in a clear blue sky
I think to myself, why can't I fly?
(My Oh My)
But these are the cards that I've been dealt
I'm me, not somebody else
Sometimes when I go for a drive
I think I do it just to feel alive
(That's no jive)
But I'm still stuck here in this joint
I feel like I'm back at the starting point
But these are the cards that I've been dealt
I'm me, not somebody else
Then one day my hair turned gray
and I wondered how it all had gotten away from me
And I think to myself what might have been
If only I could do it all over again
(I say AMEN)
But these are the cards that I've been dealt
I'm me, not somebody else
But in time some things are going to change
Yet in my heart I'll always be the same