Dan Bern - Feel Like a Man lyrics

When I saw Marlon Brando on the big screen like a hero It made me act and feel like one too For three or four hours I thought no one could touch me Then I skidded back to feelin' like I do I'm lost, crazy lonesome A plane with no place to land And I do what I have to To make me feel like a man Make me feel like a man When I was 22 years old, my daddy he was 70 I didn't know how a young man's supposed to be A few years after that he breathed his final breath But there's some secret he forgot to whisper to me And I'm lost, crazy lonesome A plane with no place to land And I do what I have to To make me feel like a man Make me feel like a man So I look in the mirror And I wait for the damn thing to speak Who needs answers One good question would be a relief So I go to all the movies and I memorize my lines And I try to stumble through another day I'm always looking for the perfect jacket Or a million dollars or a bullet Is it only me who goes through life this way I'm lost, crazy lonesome A plane with no place to land And I do anything To make me feel like a man Make me feel like a man Make me feel like a man Feel like a man