Standard (EADGBE)

Well, I'm accustomed to a smooth ride

 Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost its bite

 I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more

I don't expect to sleep through the night

 Some people say a lie's a lie's a lie

 But I say why

 Why deny the obvious child?

  Why deny the obvious child?

 And in remembering a road sign

I am remembering a girl when I was young

And we said These songs are true

 These days are ours

 These tears are free

 And hey

The cross is in the ballpark

  The cross is in the ballpark

We had a lot of fun

 We had a lot of money

 We had a little son and we thought we'd call him Sonny

 Sonny gets married and moves away

Sonny has a baby and bills to pay

Sonny gets sunnier

Day by day by day by day

Doh, doh, doh, doh

Doh, doh, doh, doh

  Well, I've been waking up at sunrise

  I've been following the light across my room

 I watch the night receive the room of my day

Some people say the sky is just the sky

 But I say

Why deny the obvious child?

  Why deny the obvious child?

Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himself

  How it's strange that some rooms are like cages

  Sonny's yearbook from high school

 Is down from the shelf

And he id-ly thumbs through the pages

  Some have died

  Some have fled from themselves

  Or struggled from here to get there

  Sonny wanders beyond his interior walls

 Runs his hand through his thinning brown hair

 Well, I'm accustomed to a smooth ride

 Or maybe I'm a dog who's lost its bite

 I don't expect to be treated like a fool no more

I don't expect to sleep through the night

 Some people say a lie's a lie's a lie

 But I say

the cross is in the ballpark

  Why deny the obvious child?