You're the author of my head And I wouldn't light up the room See, it's awkward if I'd said that I wouldn't sit back and lose If I gotta be there for me (Death, be on time for me) 'Cause I'm kind feeling there, fully (Let me unwind, fully) You're out on the border, where time left And I shouldn't care like I do But I'll be going on and on for forty years saying: Hell, what I wouldn't do Just to be around, feel better now My God, I can't stop it, so let it ring I bet it won't mean a thing You said it don't mean a thing Spent every autumn getting tallеr All of my favourites have moved Right to thе corners of their boredom I couldn't sit there with you If I gotta be there for me (Life, be on time for me) 'Cause I've been going on and on for all these years Hell, what I wouldn't do Just to make a sound, make it real loud My God, I can't stop it, I let it win I bet it won't mean a thing You said it don't mean a thing