You Better Do Something

I've been too long, looking at a photograph

Through an unchanging window pane

With a Saturday and Sunday off

I've been too long, looking at the world outside

Sitting in an office on the fourteenth floor

Dying in a shirt and tie

And if a place get a hold on a man too long

He'll sit right there looking till the choice is gone

This life you're living is your one and only

So you'd better get a move on

And you'd better do something

Or you will never do nothing

You got a hold on a good thing

It's gonna get away

I've been too long heading for a heart attack

I took a secretary for a dinner for two

And I woke with a broken back

I've been too long in this Saturday and Sunday life

Staring at the woman in the opposite chair, I wonder if she's my wife

And if a place get a hold on a man too long

He'll sit right there looking till the curtain's drawn

This life you're living is your one and only

So you'd better get your shoes on

And you'd better do something

Or you will never do nothing

You got a hold on a good thing

It's gonna get away

Was there a reason for this?

Was there a passionate kiss?

Or just a grope in a room

Was there a wedding and flowers

And hours and hours of sweet honeymoon?

Were they playing our tune?

And if a place get a hold on a man too long

He'll sit right there looking till the choice is gone

This life you're living is your one and only

So you'd better get a move on

And you'd better do something

Or you will never do nothing

You got a hold on a good thing

It's gonna get away