I don't know how I'm gonna tell you
I can't play with you no more

I don't know how I'm gonna do what mama told me
To stay away from the girl next door

I can't believe what people saying
I'm gonna let my feelings tell me

I'm not satisfied sitting here all day long
She lives in the darker side of town

And when I'm out I see you walking
Why don't your eyes see me

Could it be you've found another game to play
What did mama say to me

And yesterday I saw you standing by the river
And weren't those tears that filled your eyes
And all the fish that lay in ***** water dying
Had they got you hypnotized

And yesterday I saw you kissing tiny flowers
But all that lives is born to die

And so I say to you that nothing really matters
And all you do is stand and cry

I don't know what to say about it
When all you ears have turned away

But now's the time to look and look again at what you see
Is that the way it ought to stay

That's the way
That's the way it ought a stay