Many's the time i've been thinking about changing my ways

But when it gets right down to it it's the same drunken haze

I'm serving a sentence to write life's sentences

It's only when i'm out of it i make sense of this



Just for the record i'm gonna put it down, down

Just for the record i'm gonna change my life around



Just a revolutionary with a pseudonym

Just a bar-room dancer on my final fling

Just another writer paying off my dues

Just finding inspiration, well that's my excuse



Just for the record i'm gonna put it down, down

Just for the record i'm gonna change my life around







Just another empty gesture with an empty glass

Just another comic actor behind a tragic mask,



But i've got no discipline, got no self control

Just a little less painful here when my back's against the wall



It's too late, i found, it's too far, i'm in two minds

Both of them are out of it at the bar



When you say i got a problem that's a certainty

But i can put it all right down to eccentricity

It's just for the record it's just a passing phase

Just for the record i can stop any day