Walk into a restaurant with chicken on my mind
Look at the menu I want roastbeaf and wine
A waitress comes up I order baked beans and bread
Oh when she brings it I want ham’n eggs instead
Because my mind keeps a movin’ bouncin’ and a groovin’
A flippin’ floppin’ every whichaway
From minute to minute if my mind ain’t really in it
Never know just what I’m do or say
Sometimes I wake up happy sometimes I wake up mean
Sometimes I wake up missin’ somethin’ I ain’t seen
Might wake up wasted and I might wake up dead
Might wake up and look around and jump back into bed
Because my mind keeps a movin’…
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Sittin’ home at midnight thinkin’ bout Marie go to the phone I dial Carol Lee
I say come by babe just as fast as you can
And when she gets there I’m thinkin’ bout Ann
Because my mind keeps a movin’…
Fly off to Paris just to get away from home
Get off in London and I grab a boat for Rome
Got to St Louis be in St Paul or else take a trip and go no place at all
Because my mind keeps a movin’…
I go to a psychiatrist to straighten my head
Then I decide I need a chiropractor instead
Put salt in my coffee and ketchup in my tea only dig a chick that don’t dig me
Because my mind keeps a movin’…
Sometimes I don’t shave and I look kinda weird
So shave off my hair and I grow a beard
Shave off my beard dye my eyebrows green
Play myself a song upon a tambourine
Because my mind keeps a movin’…
You feel like you're falling backwards Like you're slippin' through the cracks Like no one…
if I could turn back the hands of time if I could turn back the…
I don't worry anymore like I did before she's not leaving she's already gone And…
If you've gone and made your mind up About leaving tomorrow Take it all, but…
Cover my eyes, too bright for night Path that I run, too small for some…
Don't want to fall into belivin nothin There's enough room for all of you to…