they said you led your life with a well mannered state of mind they said that you kept your eyes forward and your feet were held by no bind they said you were good for me but i just can t see that they were ever right i guess they didn t know you half as well as they must ve thought ooh ooh i guess your friends are just as fooled as you and you talk and talk but you ain t doin nothin you said that in all the world there were only two things you despised the first was a coward and the second one was a liar you said that honesty was your policy but that in itself is a lie forgot to add hypocrite to your little list of how to run your life ooh ooh i guess your friends are just as fooled as you and you talk and talk but you ain t doin nothin well i say i lead my life with a well mannered state of mind i say i like to keep moving forward and be held by no binds well you may call me ambitious but i don t see how there s any other way to be cause a day is a lifetime if you ll only sweep your problems away  ooh ooh i guess your friends are just as fooled as you and you talk and talk but you ain t doin nothin 