I can still remember when I bought my first guitar

Remember just how good the feeling was, put it prowdly in my car

And my family listened fifity times to my two songs repertoire

And I told mama her only son was gonna be a star

Bought all the Beatles records, sounded just like Paul

Bought all the Chuck Berry`s, 78`s and all

And I sat by my recordplayer, playing every note they played

And I watched them all on TV, making every move they made

Rock and Roll I gave you the best years of my live

All the dreamin` sunny sundays all the moonlit summernight

I was busy in the backrooom writing lovesongs to you

While you were changing your direction and never even knew

That I was always one step behind you

`66 Seems like the year I was really going somewere

We were living in San Fransisco with flowers in our hair

Singing songs of kindness so the world would understand

That the guys and me were something more than just another band

And then `69 in L.A. came around so soon

We were really making headway and writing a lotts of tunes

And we must have played the wildest stuff we had ever played

And the crowds cried out for us, well we thought we had it made

Rock and roll I gave you the best years of my life

All the crazy lazy young days all the magic moon at night

I was so busy on the road singing lovesongs to you

While you were changing your direction and never even knew

That I was always one step behind you

`71 in Soho when I saw Suzanne

I was try it to go solo with someone elses band

She came on me lately, took her by the hand

I told her all my troubles and she seemed to understand

And she followed me through London, through the hundred hotelrooms

Through a hundred record compagny`s, who didn`t like my tune

She followed me when finaly I sold my o