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I been messin' 'round for a while now, but I havent got to far.
I'm not big on employment, and I don't even have a car.
I'm not livin' nowhere special, but at least I don't pay rent.
I don't worry 'bout no taxes 'cause I haven't earned a cent...

I'm just livin'--livin' from day to day.
It's not the greatest kind of life,
and I often live with strife,
but when troubles start to hound me,
I just move from where they found me,
and they never understand me when I say..., "It's okay".

I used to be a big shot, but that was long ago.
I used to have some money; I was loaded with dough.
Everybody used to know me, and I was always good for a touch,
but I gave up on my so-called friends 'cause they always took too much...

Now I'm just livin'--livin' from day to day.
Nobody borrows from me now; they couldn't anyhow.
I'm gettin' by with just a bone; I can make it on my own,
and they never understand me when I say..., "It's okay".

One time I had a woman, a very special woman,
and she gave me everything I could need.
But I two-timed all around it, and I blew it when I found it,
now I'm walkin' in the alleys, on my hands and on my knees...

Someday I'm going back there, but the time is not quite yet.
You can't get up to the penthouse when you're swimmin' in debt.
That old rainbow looks much brighter than it did a week ago,
but until I find that rainbow's end I'm takin' things real slow...

I'm just livin'--livin' from day to day.
There's a bright spot way above me, showin' that somebody loves me,
but a dark one just below me, sayin' that nobody knows me,
and sometimes I have to wonder when I say..., "It's okay".

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