i thought the time was passed when i could   find beauty in a birds   i set the stage and the scenery   rehearsing every word   yeah but when i tried to make it more   well it was always less   and it's a thin line between pleasing yourself   and pleasing somebody else   oh yeah   oh yeah   all right   with my confidence on fire   i set to fixin' up my roles   my separation of desires   just left me deeper down in the hole   yeah when i tried to make it more   well it was always less   and it's a thin line between pleasing yourself   and pleasing somebody else   yeah and when i tried to make it more   well it was always less   it's a thin line between pleasing yourself   and pleasing somebody else   now i'm tryin to get back   to what i know that i should be   hoping to God that i was just   a temporary absentee   yeah when i tried to make it more   well it was always less   it's a thin line between pleasing yourself   and pleasing somebody else   yeah when i tried to make it more   well it was always less   and it's a thin line between pleasing yourself   and pleasing somebody else   somebody else oh yeah   oh yeah   all right