You should have listened to what your mother said

You should have listened to what your father told you to do

But you always did just what you always wanted to do

Now you end up here singing in a gilded cage

And for half your life you were wishing you were half your age

Lady let it lie



It's hard putting down your family roots when you're living in

A mobile home, but there's always blood even in a rolling stone

You squeezed me hard for the white collar dream

But you woke up to a tie dye lifestyle and its choking me

Lady let it lie



Chorus

All the boys want to be all the girls want to be all the boys

I don't want to be me no more

All the boys want to be all the girls in this turnaround world

I don't want to be me no more



They once said I was a rising star declaring me a bright contender

When it all worked out I was just a pretender

I could never disagree if you said you were dissatisfied

But why you got to take it out on a guy that tried



But surely there's something left, something worth fighting for

Something out of all this mess that's worth building on

Maybe we can start again, maybe give it one more try

Or do we just walk away, and maybe fade and die



Chorus

All the boys want to be all the girls want to be all the boys

I don't want to be me no more

All the boys want to be all the girls in this turnaround world

I don't want to be me no more

I don't want to be me no more

Me no more



(Dick/Paton/Cassidy