No Way To Stop It

You dear attractive dewey-eyed idealist Today you have to learn to be a realist You may be bent on doing deeds of daring due But up against a shark, what can a herring do? Be wise, compromise Compromise, and be wise Let them think you're on their side, be noncommittal I will not bow my head to the men I despise You won't have to bow your head, just stoop a little Why not learn to put your faith and your reliance On an obvious and simple fact of science? A crazy planet full of crazy people Is somersaulting all around the sky And everytime it turns another somersault Another day goes by And there's no way to stop it No, there's no way to stop it No, you can't stop it even if you tried So, I'm not going to worry No, I'm not going to worry Everytime I see another day go by While somersaulting at a cockeyed angle We make a cockeyed circle 'round the sun And when we circle back to where we started from Another year has run And there's no way to stop it No, there's no way to stop it If the earth wants to roll around the sun You're a fool if you worry You're a fool if you worry Over anything but little number one That's you! That's I! And I! And me! That all absorbing character That fascinating creature That super special feature Me! So every star on every whirling planet And every constellation in the sky Revolve around the center of the universe A lovely thing called I And there's no way to stop it No, there's no way to stop it And I know, though I cannot tell you why (That's charming!) That as long as I'm living Just as long as I'm living There'll be nothing else as wonderful as I I! I! I! Nothing else as wonderful As I!