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 bitches
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 through 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