Start Again

Music & lyrics, 1987

Walking along
Singing a song
Something 'bout the way
Things  aren't ever what they're meant to be

Not feeling right
Feelin' uptight
That 9 to 9 in L.A. really takes it's toll
It's really killing me

If I had a time machine
I'd set the dial
For seventeen
Stopping nowhere in between

Live again the fantasy
That I'd found the girl
Of my dreams
And I was the best I could ever be!

What's gone so wrong?
My head's in a fog
Couldn't find my way out of this mess
Even if you tried to drag me through

It's a disease
No sympathy please
I sold my soul for money
Then the money came and took my personality too!

Maybe there's a doctor somewhere
With the expertise to change my brain
He could flick the switch from crazy to sane
Then again a movie star with gorgeous eyes
Wealth and fame
Just might flip it back again!

I'm deaf dumb and blind
Not too refined
But I got a swimming pool, rubies and jewels,
A Sony Walkman too!

I like to drive
At least seventy-five
If I'm honest though
That Lamboughini's seen me shed a tear or two

If I had a time machine
I'd set the dial
For seventeen
Stopping nowhere in between

Live again the fantasy
That I'd found the girl
Of my dreams
And I was the best I could ever be!

Maybe there's a doctor somewhere
With the expertise to change my brain
He could flick the switch from crazy to sane

Then again a movie star with gorgeous eyes
Wealth and fame
Just might flip it back again!

Guess it's just the way I've always been
And probably always will be
Guess I'm just another willing victim of greed

But then I have this funny urge
To start again from seventeen
When my hair was long and free...

© Kirtland C. Peterson, 1987