Blues For The Common Man - Piper

Five o’clock in the morning I’m standing out in the rain

They don’t give me no warning, police rouse me again

Now I’m a common man, makin' out the best I can

Well I feel shook down from my head to my toes

With a girl on my arm and a spoon in my nose

This time around tell ya anything goes, oh yeah

I got the blues for the common man

I’m just a common man, and I be singing the blues for the common man

Yeah I’m singing the blues for the common man

I got no reason to hurry, I take my time on the run

I can’t forget not to worry, can’t let you see me undone

I’m just a common man, looking at a one night stand

I don’t get down with your nine to five

Don’t tell me I ain’t takin no jive

Next time around gonna skin me alive, oh yeah

I’ll be searchin' for daylight, but there’s none to be found

I’m burning my night light when there’s noone around

I’d like to love you, but your game’s too rough

Can’t do without you, I just can’t get enough

I got my villa de capri, I got my minks and my cars

I’ve got you thinking about me, you’ve got your head in the stars

You love your common man

You’re the last one to know, I couldn’t make you understand

When you got everything that your money can buy

And there ain’t one thing you ain’t already tried

But you’re goin' 'round again just to know you’re alive, oh yeah

The things that you want, the things that I got

The things that you want, they don’t mean a lot

I know what I want, I see what you got

I know what I want, and I like it a lot

I like it

I’m just a common man, just a common man