I'm staring at the front door in my coat It's kinda rainy, I've a feeling don't want to know I'm walking down the pavement, here I go I'm heading for a place, I've been a million times before And there's a thousand better ways That I could spend my time Than conversation with somebody Where the sun don't shine There's lots of people I can be around And not pretend That I've been everywhere before And I call 'em my friends, friends Somebody's got a party where I go I Wish lost the invitation, there's nobody there I know Conversation gets too loud Too many people want to talk, I wish they'd turn it all down And everybody's got a million Different points of view But when you're looking out the window That they're looking through Don't you think it's kinda stupid Trying to jump onto the rat race Train that's going the same way too And there's a thousand better ways That I could spend my time Than conversation with somebody Where the sun don't shine There's lots of people I can be around And not pretend That I've been everywhere before And I call 'em my friends, friends I look at my reflection on their wall I feel so empty, I'm surprised To see my face in there at all I make up an excuse to call my phone And less than twenty minutes later I'm in a taxi heading home And Richard Burton's on a Benderz Trying to get back home He's never been so many miles From back where he comes from He must be twenty times the legal limit Staring at the end There's not a telephone for miles I want to talk to my friends There's a thousand better ways That I can spend my time Than conversation with somebody Where the sun don't shine There's lots of people I can be around And not pretend That I've been everywhere before And I call 'em my friends, friends