My mother spent ten years sitting by a window   Scared if she spoke, she would die of a heart attack   She listened as her dreams silently screamed   They drowned like little dolphins caught in a fishnet   Dear world, I'm pleased to meet you      Hey, everybody, when you walk the walk   You gotta back it all up you, can you talk the talk?   Hey, everybody when I hear the knock   Don't wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clock?      Hey, everybody when my daddy died   He had a sad, sad story livin' in his eyes   Hey, everybody when you walk the walk   You cannot measure out your life to the tick of a clock      I wanna walk of my own drum   I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum   Walk to the beat of my own drum   I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum      Hey, everybody, when you walk the walk   You gotta back it all up but can you talk the talk?   Hey, everybody, when I hear the knock   Don't wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clock   Hey, every, hey, everybody      I wanna walk to the beat of my own drums   I wanna walk to the beat of my own drums   Walk to the beat of my own drums   I wanna walk to the beat of my own drums, hey      Walk to the beat of my own drum   I wanna live to the beat of my own drum   I wanna laugh to the beat of my own drum      I wanna hang ten high, say pleased to meet you   Take to the beat of my own drum   I wanna give to the beat of my own drum   Fly, cry, win, lose, live, die, take five   Pleased to meet you      My Daddy spent ten years living on the outside, looking in   He thought that he would never get back, hey, get back   Watched his dream walk across a silver screen      And he was standing there   When the theater went pitch black   Dear world I'm pleased to meet you      Hey, everybody when I walk the walk   I gotta back it all up, can I talk the talk?   Hey, everybody, when I hear the knock   Don't wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clock      Hey, every, hey every, hey every, hey everybody   Can you walk the walk?      I wanna walk to the beat of my own drums   I wanna walk to the beat of my own drums   Walk to the beat of my own drums   I wanna walk to the beat of my own drums, hey      Play to the beat of my own drum   I wanna sing to the beat of my own drum   I wanna play to the beat of my own drum   I wanna hang ten high, say pleased to meet you      Screw up to the beat of my own drum   I wanna take it out of town and do it to my drum      Scream shout, hide out, win, lose   Wipe out, saunter down my street   Make love to my baby   Make love to my baby      It's a wonderful idea, but it doesn't work   My own drum, my own beat   MY own drum, my own, own, own, own      Hey, did you ever get the feeling that it's really a joke?   You think you've got it figured out   And then you find that you don't?   So you say goodbye to the world   And now you're floating in space?      You got no sense of nothing not even a time or a place?   Then suddenly you hear it, it's the beat of your heart   And for the first time in your life   You know your life is about to start?   Oh, yeah, bring it on      Hey, everybody, hey, everybody   Hey, everybody when you walk the walk   You gotta back it all, back it all, back it all, back it all up      I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum   I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum   I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum      There's someone knocking in the wall   Was it like an echo?