There you go again, pretending that the world is blue.

And you see red when I explain, that I don't share your point of view.

Well I say open up your eyes, for the world is like a rainbow.

And maybe blue is just the colour of the world inside of you.



-bridge-

But that kind of blue world, that's not my world

I don't want to paint your pictures,

I ain't here to sing your sorrows.

Ain't got time to be a hero,

I don't want to be your poet.



-chorus-

Everybody feel the same pain, everybody doing time.

I can't be the one you're needing,

I can just be who I am, who I am.



We all want a world with a perfect constitution.

Believe me, we all want it now, don't want to wait another day.

And maybe if this world's to change, it's going to take a revolution.

But in the meantime, be my friend, and don't turn your head away



-bridge-

For your kind of blue world, that's not my world.

I don't want to paint your pictures.

(I don't want to write your dreams.)

I ain't here to sing your sorrows.

(Your blue world is not my scene.)

Ain't got time to be a hero.

(You can tell me, that's a crime.)

I don't want to be your poet.

(Crying out your ancient rhyme.)



-chorus-

Everybody feel the same pain, everybody doing time.

I can't be the one you're needing,

I can just be who I am, who I am.