I would like to be here
I would like to be there
I would like to be everywhere at once
I know that's a contradiction in terms,
And it's a problem, especially when
My body's nearing fifty
As my mind is nearing ten.
I can hardly stay up
And i can't get to sleep,
And i don't want to wake tomorrow morning
At the bottom of some heap
But why take it so seriously?
After all, there's nothing at stake here
Only me.
I want to be young
And i want to be old.
I would like to be wise before my time
And yet be foolish and brash and bold.
I would like the universe
To get down on it's knees and say, "guido,
Whatever you please,it's okay.
Even if it's impossible,
We'll arrange it."
That's all that i want.
I am lusting for more.
Should i settle for less?
I ask you, what's a good thing for
If not for taking it to excess?
One limitation i dearly regret,
There's only one of me i've ever met.
I would like to have another me
To travel along with myself.
I would even like to be able to sing
A duet with myself.
I would like to be here
(sing along with myself in a song)
To be there
(walking down a lane now)
Everywhere (everywhere)
Everywhere
That's a contradiction in terms.
I want to be (here)
With a counter (here)
Melody in the (here)
Top of the morning to you
Guido(guido)
Guido (guido)
Guido (guido)
Me (me) me.
I want to be proust
Or the marquis de sade,
I would like to be christ,
Mohammed, buddha
But not have to believe in god,
And you know i mean it with all of my heart.
It's the end
If something important doesn't start.
I want to be young,
But i have to be old.
What i want is a tale of sound and fury
That some idiot went and told.
I would like the universe
To get down on it's knees and say, "guido,
Whatever you please, it's okay.
Even if it's ridiculous,
We'll arrange it."
So arrange it!