Feel like I start swingin'

Soon as my two feet hit the floor

The hands of time keep spinnin'

Everybody knockin' down my door

Ya know I get a little nervous

When my telephone starts to ring

Ol' credit man keeps callin'

He ain't gettin' a goddamn thing.

I can't make the wheels roll

With your first check in the hole

I wish I could click my heels

And jump on the golden road

I'd be walkin'

Yes, I would.

There's gonna come a day

You will hear me say.

Oh, give me all that I can carry

Oh, said it's cheaper by the pound

Oh, come on, baby, doncha worry

Let's live it up till we can't live it down

Can't live it down.

Reachin' up from the bottom

I tell ya it's a bitch

It's a helluva thing to break your back

Just to make another man rich.

Ain't no pie in the sky

When you're barely gettin' by

Every day's on layaway

And it's tryin' to bleed me dry

Got me runnin'

Yes, I am.

Honey, fill my cup

Yeah, we gonna live it up.

Oh, give me all that I can carry

Oh, said it's cheaper by the pound

Oh, come on, baby, doncha worry

Let's live it up till we can't live it down.

Let it loose mama

I can see that ship comin' in

Let it loose mama

Yeah, we gonna get down again, gonna get down.

Oh, give me all that I can carry

Oh, said it's cheaper by the pound

Oh, come on, baby, doncha worry

Let's live it up till we can't live it down

Can't live it down

Can't live it down.