From the album This Is The Way.

I don't want your putting words in my head,
That is to say, don't tell me what to do.
You might be a better man,
You might have a better plan,
Well I ain't no fighting man, but I ain't afraid of you.

Yes it's true that I am crazy, as if you didn't know,
I bet I am crazier than you, as if it doesn't show.
At the age of three papa said to me
Son, you will be a gamblin' man
And with a smile on my poker face, I said I already am.

Those fancy ideas are just lies in disguise.
Don't try to blame your troubles on me.
'Cause I ain't nobody's fool,
And I'm just blind enough to see
I can't live your life for you, and you can't live my life for me.

You don't seem to hear me when I sing the blues.
I can't trust you with the truth, don't sing your blues to me.

I ain't no preacher man, just an honest fool.
I've been feeding your fire, now it's hot enough to burn you.

So take your fancy ideas and keep them to yourself.
I know right from wrong, you can't teach me nothing else.

Those fancy ideas are just lies in disguise,
You're feeding a fire that was meant to burn you.
'Cause I ain't nobody's fool,
And I'm just blind enough to see
That you can't make me no one but myself.

Your fancy ideas - lies in disguise.
Don't lay your troubles on me.
It don't pay to be no fool
When you're too blind to see
I can't live your life for you, and you can't live my life for me.

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