Younger men don't seem to need a purpose They just stand and fight for anybody's cause And older men see livin' as a circus The ones who stand up for the longest need applause From the young ones who proclaim to have the answers To the questions no one ever asked before And they cheer and have parades but when it's over They don't claim to know the answers anymore [Chorus] And it's a crazy world, but I live here And if you can hear me singin' so do you And I'm turnin' out my night light feelin' satisfied That there's nothin' any one of us can do No, there's nothin' anyone of us can do Babies cry all day sometimes for nothin' And I have cried all day for not much more Well it aint easy when you hate the things you're lovin' And you wonder what or maybe who you're lovin' for And girls seem to think that they're the chosen ones And women choose to let well enough alone And it's their business til you stick your nose in ones And then you got yourself some problems of your own [Chorus]