Fair Warning

You know, wishing won't make it so

Hoping won't do it, praying won't do it

Religion won't do it, philosophy won't do it

The Supreme Court won't do it

The president and the Congress won't do it

The U.N. won't do it, the h-bomb won't do it

The sun and the moon won't do it

And God won't do it

And I certainly won't do it

That leaves you, you'll have to do it

I know that you've been wondering

If I'm the same man inside

Never tried to fool you

'Cause I've got nothing to hide

I gave you fair warning I could never be tied down

'Til I've seen paradise with my very own eyes

Love owns us all, time owns us all, life owns us all

But the world doesn't own me (the world doesn't own me)

Don't you follow me now

I ain't afraid to say I may have been wrong, yeah

I have to go now

I'd rather live by a dream than live by a lie, yeah yeah

And that's why

There ain't no cure for what I've got baby

We just have to suffer

I feel no pain, I can't complain

Things could always be rougher

(But I picked up this banner)

And I just can't put it down, no

I can't let the world die just 'cause no one would try

Love owns us all, time owns us all, life owns us all

But the world doesn't own me (the world doesn't own me)

Don't you follow me now

Everybody's got to find his own place in the sun

Everyone

(So shine on me now)

I'd rather live by a dream then live by a lie

You can say what you will about me

Talk is cheap and I don't mind

When you lay your life down in them grooves

You know you're bound to get scratched up sometime

It's only just a song, only just a song, pay me no mind

It's only just a song, pay me no mind

Woo hoo hoo

I have to go now

You've got to walk that road alone

If you walk it at all

(Don't follow me now)

I gave you all fair warning

Now it's goodbye

I gave you all fair warning

Now it's goodbye

And every once in a while why don't you think of me

'Cause it's a long, long time and a long way to go

Can't you see the light shining in my eyes

'Cause it's just one victory

'Cause your dream goes on forever

Don't you know that I've been trying to

Get my trip together

Be a real man

I got to be a real man

1, 2, 3, do it one more time

Be a real man

Everybody be a real man

Go then, don't believe, and I don't know

'Cause I got to be a real man, yeah yeah yeah

You can be a man, a real man

I'll swim that river, climb that mountain

You and me, we all gotta be, real men