You've got to learn how to leave me be, for us to ever get along

You've got to give me the kind of time it takes, to prove I'm right or wrong

'Cause nobody knows what I had to go through-Maybe no one even cares

But all the while as the clock was tickin', I've been holed up in my lair

Doin' things my own way....My own way

You say I don't have a leg to stand on, so it's a good thing I've got two

But if I had only one leg to stand on, that's exactly what I'd do

No one can say there's a right or wrong way-Everyone's got their own advice

Now am I back to where I started, after all I've sacrificed?

By doin' things my own way....My own way

I gotta do things my own way

Yeh....my own way

I've got these feelins' I'm tryin' to deal with, I'm not so sure you understand

If I seem to be too preoccupied, to fit into your plans

It's just that its one thing on top another-Now it's one too many high

I wonder how many piles of things it takes, to bury me alive

I'm doin' things my own way...My own way

I gotta do things my own way.......My own way

Yeh I gotta do things my own way-My own way

Gotta do things my own way-Yeh my own way

My own way-My own way

Oh yeh....it's just the way it is, baby

(Phil continues)