Well I have known you
Since you were a small boy
And your mama used to say
"My boy is gonna grow up and be
Some kind of leader some day"

Then you d turn on the radio
And sing with the singer in the band
Your mama would say to you
"This isn t exactly what we had planned"

But you re a legend in your own time
A hero in the footlights
Playin tunes to fit your rhyme
But a legend s only a lonely boy
When he goes home alone.



And though I know you
Still have the heart of that small boy
Wellyou lend it out far too much
And no one woman lovin you
Can ever feel that she s been really touched.

Then you turn on the radio
And sing with the singer in the band
Think kind of sadly to yourself
This isn t exactly what you had planned.

But you re a legend in your own time
A hero in the footlights
Playin tunes to fit your rhyme
But a legend s only a lonely boy
When he goes home alone.

Well a legend s only a lonely boy
When he goes home alone.

- Back to the Songs of the Album Hello Big Man

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