eye on another one eye on my friends and my father and mother one eye on the wife and the kids' ideas what will i tell them in a few years? i got scared that something nice would fly by? scared that something nice would fly by get around to thinking responsibility getting strung up from that kind of tree thinking still about class and ideas and power and art, after all these years and it's a laugh when you think about it but you've got to be real about it and if it's a joke then it's a lot of fun and if it's serious then it's got to be done cos 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 i try to way up the percentage of restriction imposed on me by this contradiction of liking and loving and living with someone oh what is it that i haven't done? i know the la la list is endless and i know it's getting longer i used to call myself a writer but i can't cut it any longer cos i got scared that something nice would fly by and i'd be too busy looking in another direction too busy dreaming and schemeing