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My mind was a timebomb

 That was set to explode

 So I packed up my cares

 Into the sunset I rode

 A path to hell that's paved

 With good intentions.



Well I guess you and I

 Will never see eye to eye

 But if there's one thing I'll be

 Glad to know when I die

 It's that I never entertained your

 'Can't Conventions.'



Two men gaze from behind

 Their prison bars

 One man sees dirt

 The other sees stars



I'm just thinking aloud

 Isn't thinking allowed?



Just let your mind wander

 It may never come back

 Set off on a new train of thought

 On life's track.



I'm just thinking aloud

 Isn't thinking allowed?

 Why is nobody thinking?



How can you call me a failure

 Or a social defective

 When to find your own mind

 You'd need a private detective?

 I'm not a statistic or

 A regular family man.



I don't give a damn about public relations

 I'll never live up to

 Your great expectations

 You can take or leave me

 Just the way I am.



Your straight jacket emotions

 Only stifle and kill

 The spirit within us all

 I call free will.



I'm just thinking aloud

 Isn't thinking allowed?



Two men gaze from behind

 Their prison bars

 One man sees dirt

 The other sees stars.



I'm just thinking aloud

 Isn't thinking allowed?