Todd Rundgren - Fair Warning lyrics

You know, wishing won't make it so
Hoping won't do it, praying won't do it
Religion won't do it
Philosophy won't do it
The Supreme Court won't do it
The president and the Congress won't do it
The UN won't do it, the h-bomb won't do it
The sun and the moon won't do it
And God won't do it
And I certainly won't do it
That leaves you, you'll have to do it

I know that you've been wondering
If I'm the same man inside
Never tried to fool you
'Cause I've got nothing to hide
I gave you fair warning I
Could never be tied down
'Til I've seen paradise with
My very own eyes

Love owns us all, time owns us all
Life owns us all
But the world doesn't own me
(the world doesn't own me)

Don't you follow me now
I ain't afraid to say I may have been wrong
Yeah i have to go now
I'd rather live by a dream
Than live by a lie, yeah yeah
And that's why

There ain't no cure for what I've got baby
We just have to suffer
I feel no pain, I can't complain
Things could always be rougher
(But I picked up this banner)
And I just can't put it down, no
I can't let the world die just
'cause no one would try

Love owns us all, time owns us all
Life owns us all
But the world doesn't own me
(the world doesn't own me)

Don't you follow me now
Everybody's got to find his own
Place in the sun everyone
(So shine on me now)
I'd rather live by a dream
Then live by a lie

You can say what you will about me
Talk is cheap and I don't mind
When you lay your life down in them grooves
You know you're bound to
Get scratched up sometime

It's only just a song, only just a song
Pay me no mind
It's only just a song, pay me no mind
Woo hoo hoo

I have to go now
You've got to walk that road alone
If you walk it at all (Don't follow me now)
I gave you all fair warning
Now it's goodbye
I gave you all fair warning
Now it's goodbye

And every once in a while why
Don't you think of me 'Cause it's a long
Long time and a long way to go
Can't you see the light shining in my eyes
'Cause it's just one victory
'Cause your dream goes on forever
Don't you know that I've been trying to

Get my trip together be a real man
I got to be a real man
1, 2, 3, do it one more time be a real man
Everybody be a real man
Go then, don't believe, and I don't know
'Cause I got to be a real man
Yeah yeah yeah you can be a man, a real man
I'll swim that river, climb that mountain
You and me, we all gotta be, real men