Your Own Backyard Lyrics - Mott The Hoople

I've been sitting here thinking when I started out drinking 

I went on to the dope surely just to change my life 

I cried a tear and a beer for me, I lost everything near and dear to me 

Namely my children and my wife, I've an idea of having a good time 

Was sitting up there with my head between my knees 

Well I knew, everything there was to know 

Everything except which way to go 

I cried, oh God, please take me, will you take me please? 

Yeah, many a time, well I swore up and down 

I don't need none of this junk, that's a floating round 

I could quit, let me finish what I've got 

After all this stuff sure costs a lot then, I get my feet back on the ground 

Now I can't tell nobody how to live their life 

Even though inside, we're all the same 

All these things are toys I was playing with 

You know, you know we're all losers in the end 

Well now, since I've been straight, I haven't been in my cups 

I ain't shooting downs, I ain't using ups you know 

I'm still as crazy as a loon even though I don't run out and cop a spoon 

Thank the good Lord God, well I've had enough 

I've got a friend and his name is Robertson 

He told me, "Don't need to be stoned to know a friend 

Believe me you're all beautiful people just the way you are 

Tell me, what has that stuff done for you so far?" 

I've been sitting here, thinking, I've been winking, I've been blinking 

Well, I don't have to sit around no more on the nod 

With my head in the air, you know, I can do anything 

I can do it straight, I can do it so much better now 

It's gotta start right here in your own back yard 

Yes it's gotta start back your own back yard 

Everybody has their own beautiful back yard 

You might find oil wells in your own back yard 

You might find anything in your own back yard 

You might even find my shadow in your own back yard 

Who knows, what you might dig up