Oh I look at the sky running my hand over my eyes
And I fell out of breath turning my head from things that I said
Till I finally die which started the whole world living
Oh if I only see that the joke was on me
Oh I look at the sky...
Oh no that the joke was on me
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Regrets I've had a few but then again too few to mention
I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption
I planned each chartered course each careful step along the byway
And more much more than this I did it my way
Yes there were times I'm sure you knew when I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all when there was doubt I ate it up and spit it out
I faced it all and I stood tall and did it my way
I've loved I've laughed and cried I've had my fill my share of losing
And now as tears subside I find it all so amusing
To think I did all that and may I say not in a shy way
Oh no oh no not me I did it my way
For what is a man what has he got if not himself then he has not
To say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels
The record shows I took the blows and did it my way
And did it my way
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Oh there were good times for a little while
But now her new friends say I cramp her style
I guess I'm only in the way now she don't need me hanging round
Oh San Francisco is a lonely town
Now she's out there somewhere cross San Francisco Bay
She'll be wondering where I am when she gets in today
She'll find I left her a oneway ticket home
And while she stands there cryin' all alone
And while this Greyhound keeps on rolling I'll pray Lord she's found
San Francisco is a lonely town
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Yesterday when I was young
So many drinking songs were waiting to be sung
So many wayward pleasures lay in store for me
And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see
I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out
I never stopped to think what life was all about
And every conversation I can now recall
Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all
Yesterday the moon was blue
And every crazy day brought something new to do
I used my magic age as if it were a wand
And never saw the waste and emptiness beyond
The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
And every flame I lit too quickly quickly died
The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away
And only I am left on stage to end the day
There are so many songs in me that won't be sung
I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue
The time has come for me to pay for yesterday when I was young
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In your penthouse high from the dirty streets I swear you'll never find
The answers to the questions that muddy up your mind
For your window shades are drawn upon the wicked and the cruel
You fool you fool
You give your share the charity without a second thought
And you are kind to animals for that's what you've been taught
But all your real emotion you proudly overrule
You fool you fool
You've planned your life so carefully for society's delight
And still you can't quite understand why things just don't seem right
It's a love made fresh out homemade bread will sat aside to cool
You fool you fool you fool
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If the time should arrive when I feel alive once again
When each beat of my heart says it's time to start giving in
When I close my eyes in someone's warm embrace
And I don't see your face then I'll be over you
When I don't see your face then I'll be over you
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