livin' with my back against the wall
nowhere but forward to fall
well I close my eyes, somebody will catch my breath
oh my lord let's get on board
the rides gonna scare me to death
I don't wanna leave before my time is done
don't wanna stick around when my race is run
I don't wanna go before they call my dance
don't wanna die asking for another chance
come help me Poor Richard
and won't you help me raise the glass
here's to me and here's to you
them dreams all come to pass
cruel trick of time, is played in the wink of an eye
well heaven's above you don't need no shove
the years go sailing bye, oh
I don't wanna leave before my time is done
don't wanna stick around when my race is run
I don't wanna go before they call my dance
don't wanna die asking for another chance
another game of chance
a lifetime come and gone
I guess it's up to me
if I don't want to say another man's song
I wanna say what Grandma said, lying on her dying bed
I ain't been cheated, no mistreated, and I don't have to say that yet, oh
I don't wanna leave before my time is done
don't wanna stick around when my race is run
I don't wanna go before they call my dance
don't wanna die asking for another chance
another chance
no not another chance
no no another chanceI was sitting at a table
Down at the Steak 'n' Sabre
With Cain and Abel
The circumstance was a different kind of world
We were laughing and drinking
The universe was shrinking
I was thinking, man, that's a different kind of world
Down at the Steak 'n' Sabre
Like Trobarianders
Don't you understand that's a different kind of world
I was swimming in Bali
When I got swallowed
By something hollow
We were going down to a different kind of world
Where they talk like Plato
And sweet potatoes growing all around in a different kind
of world
Right down in the shallows
And the wind it blows
Don't you know that's a different kind of world