Bob Schneider King Of The World Lyrics

King Of The World Lyrics

Jimmy said its not easy being the king of the world,
Gets harder every
day.
Somebody's gotta do the job, ya know?
So it might as well be
me.

Bought himself a one way ticket,
On a greyhound bus bound for
Santa Fe,
Left everyone behind he'd ever known,
Just faded
away...

Jimmy found himself,
A lover down in Hollywood.
He was a
good man,
As far as good men go, I guess.

He sold system software for
a high tech firm down in the valley,
She wrote him a letter,
It went a
little something like this.

She said I had big dreams, big dreams don't
you know?
So hard to make these big dreams come true.
Now I try to hold
on to what we had the best I could.
I find holdin on is the hardest thing to
do.

Oh I ain't comin home tonight,
So don't wait up for me.
No I
ain't coming home tonight,
Well I'm finally free.

Was a guy that I
met one night in a bar in Colorado,
He said, man I got a gift, more like a
curse, I must confess.
Said I can remember everybody's name that I've ever
met before in my life,
So i said, name everybody in your first grade class,
and he did, I guess.

And then imagine all those names,
Stretched out
forever,
Like the rays of light,
From some long dead distant
star.

And I thought to myself,
What have I done with this life of
mine?
Besides finding myself in this smoke-filled bar,
And I
said,

Oh I ain't comin home tonight,
No don't wait up for me.
No I
ain't comin home tonight,
Said I'm finally free,
I'm finally
free.

And time rolls by,
Like an old friend gone away.
And I am
just a mortal man,
And death will be my final lover,
And life will always
be something that I'll never understand.

And now I'm higher than a
capitol building in downtown Austin,
Freer than the west Texas wind,
And
I move down the street like a cloud moving across a clear blue sky,
And I
know I'll never feel this way again.

Oh I ain't coming home
tonight,
So don't wait up for me.
No I ain't coming home tonight,
Oh
I'm finally free,
I'm finally free,
I'm finally free,
I'm finally
free,
I'm finally free,
I'm finally free,
I'm finally free,
I'm
finally free,
I'm finally free,
I'm finally free...