We sat around at night and talked about so many things    Lay on the floor till the morning appeared    You laughed at me and said I just don't get it    You said we should be making plans for getting out of here       Somebody told me when I was just a little kid    Don't follow leaders just think for yourself    But everybody minds everybody else's business here    Why can't they turn their eyes to somebody else       Tell me no use thinking    We could ever be something    We could rise with the stars    Better off as we are       My older brother he left the day he finished school    Moved down to New York to Washington Square    He calls me up and says you should come and see me    Watch the waves of people rolling everywhere       Tell me no use thinking    We could ever be something    We could rise with the stars    Better off as we are       Late in the evening I'm up in my room    Trying to think of nothing clear away the day    I lie awake and let my body wander    Up into the moonlight floating away       Tell me no use thinking    We could ever be something    We could rise with the stars    Better off as we are