Stop thief! You're gonna come to grief


If you don't take a little more care


You're gonna get more than the family plan


From this one shoestring affair


I may be crazy buy I can't contemplate


Being trapped between the doctor and the magistrate





(CHORUS) Once of these days I'm gonna pay it back


Pay it back one of these days


Once of these days I'm gonna pay it back


Pay it back one of these days





And then they told me I could be somebody


If I didn't let too much get in my way


And I tried so hard just to be myself


But I keep on fading away


And then the lights went out, I didn't know what to do


If I could fool myself, then maybe I'd fool you





(REPEAT CHORUS)





I wouldn't say that I was raised on romance


Let's not get stuck in the past


I love you more than everything in the world


I don't expect that will last


They told me everything was guaranteed


Somebody somewhere must've lied to me





(REPEAT CHORUS AND FADE)