We sat around at night and talked about so many things 
lay on the floor till the morning appeared 
you laughed at me and said I just don't get it 
you said we should be making plans for getting out of here 

Somebody told me when I was just a little kid
don't follow leaders just think for yourself 
but everybody minds everybody else's business here 
why can't they turn their eyes to somebody else 

Tell me no use thinking 
we could ever be something 
we could rise with the stars 
better off as we are 

My older brother he left the day he finished school 
moved down to New York to Washington Square 
he calls me up and says you should come and see me 
watch the waves of people rolling everywhere 

Tell me no use thinking 
we could ever be something 
we could rise with the stars 
better off as we are 

Late in the evening I'm up in my room 
trying to think of nothing clear away the day 
I lie awake and let my body wander 
up into the moonlight floating away 

Tell me no use thinking 
we could ever be something 
we could rise with the stars 
better off as we are