You Better Do Something Lyrics

You Better Do Something

I've been too long, looking at a photograph
Through an unchanging window
pane
With a Saturday and Sunday off
I’ve been too long, looking at the
world outside
Sitting in an office on the fourteenth floor
Dying in a
shirt and tie

And if a place get a hold on a man too long
He’ll sit
right there looking till the choice is gone
This life you’re living is your
one and only
So you’d better get a move on

And you’d better do
something
Or you will never do nothing
You got a hold on a good
thing
It’s gonna get away

I’ve been too long heading for a heart
attack
I took a secretary for a dinner for two
And I woke with a broken
back
I’ve been too long in this Saturday and Sunday life
Staring at the
woman in the opposite chair, I wonder if she’s my wife

And if a place
get a hold on a man too long
He’ll sit right there looking till the
curtain’s drawn
This life you’re living is your one and only
So
you’d better get your shoes on

And you’d better do something
Or
you will never do nothing
You got a hold on a good thing
It’s gonna get
away

Was there a reason for this?
Was there a passionate kiss?
Or
just a grope in a room
Was there a wedding and flowers
And hours and
hours of sweet honeymoon?
Were they playing our tune?

And if a place
get a hold on a man too long
He’ll sit right there looking till the choice
is gone
This life you’re living is your one and only
So you’d better
get a move on

And you’d better do something
Or you will never do
nothing
You got a hold on a good thing
It’s gonna get away