Fair Warning Lyrics - Initiation - Todd Rundgren

You know, wishing won't make it so 

Hoping won't do it, praying won't do it 

Religion won't do it, philosophy won't do it 

The supreme court won't do it, 

The president and the congress won't do it 

The un won't do it, the h-bomb won't do it, 

The sun and the moon won't do it 

And God won't do it, 

And I certainly won't do it 

That leaves you, you'll have to do it 

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I know that you've been wondering 

If I'm the same man inside 

Never tried to fool you 

'cause I've got nothing to hide 

I gave you fair warning I could never be tied down 

'til I've seen paradise with my very own eyes 

Love owns us all, time owns us all, life owns us all 

But the world doesn't own me 

Dontcha follow me now 

I ain't afraid to say I may have been wrong 

I have to go now 

I'd rather live by a dream than live by a lie 

And that's why 

There ain't no cure for what I've got baby 

We just have to suffer 

I feel no pain, I can't complain, 

Things could always be rougher 

But I picked up this banner 

And I just can't put it down (no) 

I can't let the world die just 'cause no one would try 

Dontcha follow me now 

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Everybody's got to find his own place in the sun, 

Everyone 

So shine on me now 

I'd rather live by a dream then live by a lie 

You can say what you will about me 

Talk is cheap and I don't mind 

When you lay your life down in them grooves 

You know you're bound to get scratched up sometime 

It's only just a song, pay me no mind 

I have to go now 

You've got to walk that road alone 

If you walk it at all 

Don't follow me now 

I gave you all fair warning 

Now it's goodbye 

And every once in a while why don't you think of me 

'cause it's a long, long time and a long way to go 

Can't you see the light shining in my eyes 

'cause it's just one victory 

'cause your dream goes on forever 

Don't you know that I've been trying 

To get my trip together 

Be a real man 

I got to be a real man 

1, 2, 3, do it one more time 

Be a real man 

Everybody be a real man 

Go then, don't believe, and I don't know 

'cause I got to be a real man 

You can be a man, a real man 

I'll swim that river, climb that mountain 

You and me, we all gotta be, real men