My mother spent 10 years sitting by a window

Scared if she spoke she would die of a heart attack

She listened as her dreams silently screamed

They drowned like little dolphins caught in a fishnet



Dear world i'm pleased to meet you



Hey everybody when you walk the walk

You gotta back it all up you gotta talk the talk

Hey everybody when I hear the knock

Don't wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clock



Hey everybody when my daddy died

He had a sad sad story written in his eyes

Hey everybody when you walk the walk

You cannot measure out your life to the tick of a clock



I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum

I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum



Hey everybody

Can you walk the walk you gotta back it all up

But can you talk the talk

Hey everybody

can you walk the walk?



I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum

(Say what?)

I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum

(Say what?)



I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum

I wanna live to the beat of my own drum

I wanna take to the beat of my own drum

I wanna hang ten, high, say pleased to meet you



Give to the beat of my own drum

I wanna sing to the beat of my own drum



I wanna fly, cry, win, lose, live, die, take five

Pleased to meet you



My daddy spent 10 years living on the outside looking in

He thought that he would never get back

Watched his dream walk across a silver screen

And he was standing there when the theatre went pitch black



Dear world I'm pleased to meet you



Hey everybody when I walk the walk

I gotta back it all up I vgotta talk the talk

Hey everybody when I hear the knock

Don't wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clock



Hey everybody--can you walk the walk?



I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum

(Say what?)

I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum

(Say what?)



I wanna live to the beat of my own drum

I wanna laugh to the beat of my own drum

I wanna play to the beat of my own drum

I wanna hang ten, high, say pleased to meet you



I wanna screw up to the beat of my own drum

I wanna take it out of town and do it to my drum



Scream shout

Wipe out

Make love to my baby



Father: It's a wonderful idea, but it doesn't work.



My own drum my own beat



Hey did you ever get the feeling that it's really a joke

You think you've got it figured out and then you find that you don't

So you say goodbye to the world and now you're floating in space

You got no sense of nothing not even a time or a place

Then suddenly you hear it it's the beat of your heart

And for the first time in your life you know your life is about to start



I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum



Daughter:

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