Way back when, I was all aggrieved,
I fell down and skimmed my knees
It didn't matter much to me
At the tender age of ten,
running wild and free
Well, fell out of the tree,
I didn't get no sympathy
Fine by me, I wasn't concerned with
the ways of the world and his wife
The pattern was set in stone
for the rest of my life
For the rest of my life
It doesn't matter if I win or lose
Long as I am free to choose
For the rest of my life
It doesn't matter if I win or lose
Long as I am free to choose
I just turned seventeen,
when it all went wrong
So I sang a different song,
in a strange and awkward key
Doremi, I cut myself some slack,
I headed way down south
I know my heart was in my mouth I
knew the things that turned out fine
Just sparking time I wasn't concerned
with the weight of the world and his wife
The pattern was set in stone
for the rest of my life
For the rest of my life
It doesn't matter if I win or lose
As long as I am free to choose
For the rest of my life
It doesn't matter if I win or lose
As long as I am free to choose
And how the years have
flown and I'm fully grown
With a small child of my own,
who fell down and skinned his knee
C 'est la vie, he said
It doesn't matter if I win or lose,
long as I am free to choose
For the rest of my life
It doesn't matter if I win or lose,
long as I am free to choose
For the rest of my life
For the rest of my life
For the rest of my life
For the rest of my life
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