ever since i was a child i loved to wander wild through the bright city lights and find myself a life i could call my own it was always my ambition to see piccadilly ramble and roam around soho and pimlico and savile row and walk down the abbey road so i saved all my money and packed up my clothes and i said good bye to my friends and my folks back home and i left for a life of my own i left for a life on the road i m a real hungry tyke and i know what i like and i know where i m goin to those bright city lights oh yeah oh yeah this time i m gonna get there i m bound for a life on the road give me life on the road i said life on the road when i arrived in euston i was little more than a child and i didn t know then that the dives and the dens would be so vulgar and wicked and wild mama always told me the city ladies were bawdy and bold and so i searched night and day to catch a kissable lady but all that i caught was a cold cause those stuck up city ladies didn t notice me walk by now i ve got holes in my shoes cause i ve been walkin the streets all night and i m livin the life that i chose livin my life on the road i said life on the road i want life on the road life on the road i was standing with the punks in praed street when a muscle man came my way he said hey are you gay can you come out and play and like a fool i went and said o k ever since i was knee high i thought the city was paved with gold but i ve seen so many losers and down and out boozers who were tired of bein bought and sold city women are a tease but i d really love to please now i ve got blood shot eyes cause i ve been walkin the streets all night and it sure knocks you out on the road and i m livin my life on the road i said life on the road life on the road i want life on the road one of these days i wanna go home visit my friends and see all the places that i used to know and say good bye to a world that s too real good bye to a world that s forgotten how to feel and it s slowly usin me and there s no security sometimes i hate the road but it s the only life i know but i m livin the life that i chose so i ll live out my life on the road give me life on the road i said life on the road i said life on the road give me life on the road