was born in Illinois, just a tiny baby    Little tiny baby boy way back in Illinois    Learned to talk when I was one, learned to walk soon after    Taking steps and making noise I learned to look for laughter    Started school when I was 5 I kissed the girls much later    Had a crush on Amy but I was too young to date her    Failing at the age of 5 to prove myself a man    So I started violin, the flutophone and piano       When I was in the 4th grade I fell for Miss Shapiro    Started reading Superman and he became my hero    Even though I couldn't fly I did what I was able    Leaping in a single bound right from the kitchen table    Flying through the house pretending sister was my villain    Fighting through the years until she turned me on to Dylan    That took care of Superman in favor of the stereo    Chad and Jeremy, oh my, and Peter, Paul and Mary, oh      Entered in the working world at 13 years of age    Ten bucks every Saturday was my working wage   My best friend in high school taught me the guitar, oh    We spent every minute like there was no tomorrow    Every day we'd sing together, music was our past time    Swearing to each other that there'd never be a last time    But age would have us witness our relationship unravel    He took off for business school and I went off to travel       At 20 I went overseas looking for direction    I discovered I was only starving for affection    So I came home to see the girl who wrote me loving letters    But when I showed she changed her mind and I had to forget her    Got a job working in some warehouse for the city    Empty handed lover boy all buried in self-pity    I learned a lesson, yes I did, I'll not do that again    Falling for a stranger fails nine time out of ten       So I became Alaska bound, oh I was 23 then    Many different jobs I found, oh I was very free then    First was advertising, then psychology    Then I heard the music call and that was it for me    Something in those melodies and being on a stage    Exciting to my soul, it was the time I came of age    Found what I was looking for, perhaps what I was given    Entertaining thoughts of entertaining for a living       Then I went to New York town, got a steady girl    With all the oysters I had found she had the only pearl    True to form I took my time and she was gone one day    Sometimes you don't know what you've got until it's got away    We never had much money but that never had much meaning    We always had our choices and we did our share of dreaming    We had come to be just like a hand inside a glove, oh    Living in this world today you need someone to love    And that's what I have learned in all these years I've told you of, oh    Living in this world today you need someone to love      Living in this world today you need to know your love