well I don’t know just how to tell you this in a telephone call from so far that I’m never coming back say you don’t understand one day you’ll understand why I’m never coming back some other mother please believe like I believed in you for everything I tried and tried again but I never could conceive what you wanted so, so badly now I’m drowning in my dreams and I don’t know just where I’m going but they
(chorus) they don’t know me yet the day will soon come they don’t know my best (the day will soon come) sure as the sun has set the day will soon come yeah, the day the day the day will soon come
and what I really want I really, really want is what I haven’t got yet that’s what I really want Am I the only one Don’t everybody want to try to get, get, get what they’ve been dreaming of
some people say I don’t know my way I can’t find my place and my dreams are much too big for the head they’re in when you gonna give it all up? say I’m stranded in my own world I’m going nowhere I thought you knew me better
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my baby is crying said he can't compete with all the fire in my belly and the fire is rousing to the words I speak barely express the thing I mean so deep boy I hear what you’ve been playing at your radio but I’ve been bumping something special through my head, headphones you can say I’m dumb say what I’m doing is wrong say it at the top of your lungs boy, don’t you underestimate me!