Todd Rundgren's Utopia - The Wheel lyrics

Some people say life's like a merry-go-round I think it's more like a ferris wheel 'Cause sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down Sometimes you just don't know what to feel And just when you think you've got the game figured out And you say you've had enough The mysterious mad man with his hand on the lever Don't seem to never ever want to let you off You can't get off this wheel of karma You can't stop the hands of time Now I have a friend, I might have a few Sometimes I think they just don't care But I think sometimes they think the same thing of me, yeah You might say we've got a problem there You know we all got this habit We like to talk too much And that always tends to slow you down But we never change direction We just keep going round and round and round and round And let me off this wheel of karma Let me stop the hands of time Seems like I've been around so many places And I must have learned a lot of things And although I ain't yet come up with a so-called answer At least I think I finally learned how to sing And there's just a few things I ain't got sorted out Sometimes they make my brain get sore Like if kids were left of all devices Would they ever come up with a thing like war Let us off this wheel of karma Let us stop the hands of time