take the gunning face up the backbone and brain don't lace up suspicion of pain won't serve you right the wind turns ill rapes the heart and blinds the will wish you were in love with my nervous tissue heaven preserve us ideas will eat as vultures die lets go forth and multiply my mind caught a train to a place called mundane i got scared that something nice would fly by i couldn't care less about consequence i think i'll sit on the fence on that one but i'm not getting younger feeling sorry for myself i'm getting scared that something nice might fly by i get scared that something nice will fly by and i will miss it out the corner of my eye cos i'll have one eye on the tv and one eye on the wife one eye on the tv and that kind of life yeah i get scared that something nice will fly by well time gets me down, sitting around i do a lot of joking and smoking and being this character in the open wide wanting people to love me and way up my psyche and it's a real laugh when you think about it still you gotta be real about it so give me excitement, don't take none away i can't remember having any, anyway, i got scared that something nice might fly by and i wouldn't see it with my little eye cos i'd have one eye on something, one