Watch What You're Doing - Larry Norman

Mamma killed the chicken

She thought it was a duck

She put it on the table

With its legs sticking up

Papa broke his glasses

When he fell down drunk

Tried to drown the kitty cat

Turned out to be a skunk

You gotta watch what you’re doing

Didn’t you know

You gotta watch what you’re doing

Didn’t you know

Little Joe Billy

Went fishing for trout

Played hooky from school

'til the cops found out

Didn’t have a father

Was an only child

And his momma never beat him

So he grew up wild

You gotta watch what you’re doing

Yeah

I knew a girl

Sweet as could be

But she fell for men

Like a chain sawed tree

She listened to their lies

Was fooled by their charms

Now she’s sitting

With a baby in her arms

You gotta watch what you’re doing

Didn’t you know

You gotta watch what you’re doing

You oughta know that

You gotta watch out

Watch out

Well everything’s fine

Till things get bad

Then you sit around thinking

Of the good times you had

But it ain’t no good

To lead a life of sin

If you don’t shape up

You know you’ll never get in

You better watch what you’re doing

Don’t you know

You oughta know where you’re going

Do you know

Some folks smile

They seem alright

Then you later find out

They were like demons in the night

Try to love everybody

But don’t be blind

Cause some kind of people

Try to mess up your mind

You gotta watch who you know

Some people say that

God is dead

That He doesn’t exist

Except inside your head

I wonder how many

Gonna be surprised

When they look straight up

And see Him coming through the skies

You gotta watch what you’re doing

Cause He does, yeah

You know He watches what you’re doing

Yes He does

And He knows where you’re going

Yeah yeah yow

C’mon pilgrim

You know He loves you

He loves you more

Than He loves this cloven earth

Don’t make your life bad

And start acting like and idiot

You better watch out

There’s someone after you

It’s the Devil

And he wants to lock you up in his zoo

He’s got a nice little cage

Picked out just for you

I bet it fits real nice too

You gotta watch out

Watch what you’re doing

Watch where you’re going

Watch who you marry

Love who you bury

I was walking down the road

Just walking down the road

And I bumped into You

I had a dream which was a

Nightmare.

it was the last

Time I saw fehrion.

I was walking

Backwards, picking up the pieces

And looking for the footprints

Of the doctor.

the butterfly had

Flown and a little wooden man said

«we sleep till He arrives.»

but

They mad him go back five steps

Which placed him right here and

Also in the kitchen hanging on

To a dead phone and looking

At the chicken

Two times seven

The clock struck eleven

And them seven days at the

Edge of space

And I told them, I’ve got to

Get back to earth

I feel like dying

Phase two is ensuing

Be careful what you sign

You gotta watch what you’re doing