Many's the time I've been thinkin' about changing my ways   But when it gets right down to it, it's the same drunken haze   I'm serving a sentence to write life's sentences   It's only when I'm out of it I make sense of this      But just for the record I'm gonna put it down, down, down, down   Just for the record I'm gonna change my life around      Just a revolutionary with a pseudonym   Just a barroom dancer on my final fling   Just another writer payin' off my dues   Just findin' inspiration, well that's my excuse      Just for the record I'm gonna put it down   (Down, down, down)   Just for the record, I'm gonna change my life around      Just another empty gesture with an empty glass   Just a comic actor behind a tragic mask      But I've got no discipline, got no self control   Just a little less painful here when my back's against the wall      It's too late, I found, it's too far, I'm in two minds   Both of them are out of it at the bar      Tu ru tu tu tu tu   When you say, I got a problem that's a certainty   But I can put it all down to eccentricity   It's just for the record, it's just a passin' phase   Just for the record, I can stop any day