Quarterflash - Trying to Find A New Way lyrics

It was '71 when I wrote our first song, Mom was still sleeping - Dad was still gone, So I snuck out of bed - wrote down a line, I liked the words but they seemed out of... Time, time, time is the enemy, Trying to rhyme in a line what you meant to me, I thought I had it when I found that diminished, Seventy verses later I was still trying to finish, I was trying to find a new way to get to you, Trying to find a new way to make it true, Trying to find a new way... It was '82 before we broke their hearts, Always pedal to the metal - unsettled from the start, It was touch and go and up and down, And we held onto each other like a merry-go-round, Round, round like a satellite, I tried to sing it like you wrote it but it wasn't right, I sung for millions and I sung for tips, And all them sons of b**hes on the Sunset Strip and... I was trying to find a new way to get to you, Trying to find a new way to make it true, Trying to find a new way... There we go long ago I know you remember, Yelling at me even though I never heard a word you'd say, That was me, absentee, you see I was always living, In the make-believe looking for another way to say I loved you. I've been your lover and I've been your beast, And your worst critic when you needed one least, And you cut me down and I make you cry, I tried to change you and I still don't know why, Why, why do we go thru this, I can see it in your eye that you're getting pissed, Don't ask me if I like your suggestion, If you don't want the answer, Baby, Then don't ask the question, I'm just... I was trying to find a new way to get to you, Trying to find a new way to make it true, Trying to find a new way...