I pick me up by the seat of my pants   And put my fingers down on the keys   To sing a story that ends nobody's friends   I'm sittin' in a rock 'n' roll mood   I'd like to help but I know it's no good      They say nobody's friend, is nobody's fool   That's an old saying that I just made up   Singing songs is to make people smile   But I'm having trouble smiling myself      And now you ask me for a song to help you along   But I'm sittin' in a rock 'n' roll mood   I'd like to help you but I know it's no good   I'm like a fish that done dropped out of his school      That's another saying that I just made up   How about a man who can't see his own face   Look at himself in the act   Fortune teller is trying to tell about   What she's doing the farm and that ain't all      Now won't you think of a man with a watch in his hand   Who's dying in to himself, duh   Now how about the singer whose sittin' here singing   That he's sittin on the rock 'n' roll mood      He'd like to help you but he knows   At least, he thinks he's no good   Sittin' on the rock 'n' roll mood      Here's an old saying, I think I'll go home   Now you ask me for a song to