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from somewhere deep in the land of jazz i heard someone call my name then i realized i'd been born too late to have any chance in the game so i went looking for a stranger some stranger, baby, to blame this is the story of my life and you're welcome to it if you think you can tell it better you go ahead and do it my rent was paid through 1975 and after that i was on my own moved into a toaster oven on tenth street didn't have a telephone i used to tell my troubles to a guy uptown and then he'd play 'em on his saxophone this is the story of my life and you're welcome to it if you think you can tell it better you go ahead and do it i had a cat named rudy and a cat named olive and my girlfriend lived cross town she had a brother in prison in tennessee her second cousin was a circus clown her mama spilled a gallon of chicken soup on my ex-wife's wedding gown this is the story of my life and you're welcome to it if you think you can tell it better you go ahead and do it i didn't want no peaches didn't shake no tree i was happy with a little fuzz there was some kind of problem i was s'posed to fix but wouldn't anybody tell me what it was i asked my guru "why's the world so round?" he said "yo knucklehead just because!" this is the story of my life and you're welcome to it if you think you can tell it better you go ahead and do it you'd think i would've given up by now but brother i'm not that type i draw inspiration from mister magritte when he says "this is not a pipe" and the only man i really believe's flavor flav when he says "don't believe the hype" this is the story of my life and you're welcome to it if you think you can tell it better you go ahead and do it Copyright Samm Bennett - all rights reserved back to Lyrics Table of Contents |