Be Somebody Lyrics

You don't have to be yourself, just be somebody

Don't curl up in the corner and start sleeping at life's party

You don't have to live a long, long, time

Just long enough to pay for each and every crime

You don't have to be yourself, just be somebody

I once knew a man named Thomas D

When I was growing up, he used to play with me

He used to tell me that winning wasn't everything, but then again

He'd say, Losing is nothing but pain and suffering

And the ones you love never seem to have enough things

Then he'd repeat his mantra over and over again

You don't have to be yourself, just be somebody

Don't curl up in the corner and start sleeping at life's party

You don't have to live a long, long, time

Just long enough to pay for each and every crime

You don't have to be yourself, just be somebody

I once knew a woman who was short and tanned

She'd lay her head in my lap and she'd hold my hand

She used to tell me that everyone had the perfect love within reach

But I wasn't hers, she needed diamonds and furs

And as the years roll past, her memory blurs

She finally taught me the lesson that my father tried to teach

You don't have to be yourself, just be somebody

Don't curl up in the corner and start sleeping at life's party

You don't have to live a long, long, time

Just long enough to pay for each and every crime

You don't have to be yourself, just be somebody

When I die and go to heaven or hell knows where

I'll probably be wearing fresh underwear

I'll probably be talking to a spirit at the gate

I don't know which gate and I don't know which God

But I'll have paid up my insurance, and it seems quite odd

How we live out our lives trying to buy our fate

You don't have to be yourself, just be somebody

Don't curl up in the corner and start sleeping at life's party

You don't have to live a long, long, time

Just long enough to pay for each and every crime

You don't have to be yourself, just be somebody