How could things be so easy some days

And so hard in times when I could use

Some help coming by my way

I just don't know why you won't take me for myself

You say that I should be somebody

Don't you think that I'd be funny

In a suit and tie, ol' mister nine-to-five

I just don't know why you won't take me for myself

I've been racking my brain

Trying to find a way to make ends meet

I've been making two bridges

Write you songs that you can sing

There ain't anybody else that I could be

Say, how long will it be now

How long will it be now

How long will it be now

How long will it take to make him see my side

I ain't no nine to five

I just don't know why you won't take me for myself

If you could only own a mountain made of solid gold

What difference would it make

You'd just have more to break

And I don't know why you won't take me for myself

I just don't know why you won't take me for myself

I just don't know why you won't take me for myself

I just don't know why you won't take me for myself