Advice is cheap you can take it from me It´s yours to keep ´cause opinions are free Nobody knows about the trouble I´ve seen Nobody´s perfect, mister, nobody´s clean It costs too much and takes too long to find out too late
Some words are not heard ´til after they´re spoken Your role was protective, your soul was too defective Some people just don´t have a heart to be broken
We could have gone all the way to the Great Wall of China If you´d only had a little more faith in me In lieu of diamonds, gold and platinum reminders will still shine bright All the king´s men and all the king´s horses Can´t put you together the way you used to be We could have been standing on the Great Wall of China
You take a piece of whatever you touch Too many pieces means you´re touching too much
You never win if you can´t play it straight You only beat me if you get me to hate It must be so lonely to think that you have only Somebody else´s life to live if they let you I ain´t too selective, but it don´t take no detective To find out how fast your friends will forget you
We could have gone all the way to the Great Wall of China Now all you´re going to be is history Help yourself, it´s all you can eat at the Empire Diner tonight You coulda had class, you coulda been a contender Charlie, you shoulda looked out for me You could have been standing, standing on the Great Wall of China
This was not your calling, just look how far you´ve fallen I heard your story, man, you´ve got to be joking Keep things in perspective, this is my true objective Why tear this heart out if it´s only been broken?
We could have gone all the way to the Great Wall of China If you´d only had a little more faith in me In lieu of diamonds, gold and platinum reminders will still shine bright All the king´s men and all the king´s horses Can´t put you together the way you used to be We could have been standing on the Great Wall of China