Don McLean - Dreidel lyrics

I feel like a spinning top or a dreidel
The spinning don't stop when
You leave the cradle you just slow down
Round and around the world you go
Spinning through the lives of
The people you know we all slow down

How you gonna keep on turnin'
From day to day? How you gonna keep from
Turnin' your life away?
No days you can borrow, no time you can buy
No trust in tomorrow, it's a lie

I feel like a spinning top or a dreidel
The spinning don't stop when
You leave the cradle you just slow down
Round and around the world you go
Spinning through the lives of
The people you know we all slow down

How you gonna keep on turnin'
From day to day? How you gonna keep from
Turnin' your life away?

And I feel like I'm dippin' and divin'
My sky shoes are spiked with lead heels
I'm lost in this star car I'm drivin'
But my air sole keeps pushin' big wheels

My world is a constant confusion
My mind is prepared to attack
My past, a persuasive illusion
I'm watchin' the future it's black

What do you know? You know
Just what you perceive
What can you show? Nothing
Of what you believe and as you grow
Each thread of life that you leave
Will spin around your deeds
And dictate your needs
As you sell your soul and you sow your seeds
And you wound yourself and
Your loved one bleeds and your habit's grow
And your conscience feeds
On all that you thought you should be
I never thought this could happen to me

I feel like a spinning top or a dreidel
The spinnin' don't stop when
You leave the cradle you just slow down
Round and around this world you go
Spinnin' through the lives of
The people you know we all slow down

How you gonna keep on turning
From day to day? How you gonna keep from
Turning your life away?

I feel like a spinning top or a dreidel
The spinning don't stop when
You leave the cradle you just slow down