Rock'n'Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life) Songtext

von Mac Davis

I can still remember when I bought my first guitar
Remember just how good the feeling was, put it proudly in my car
And my family listened fifty times to my two song repertoire
And I told my Mom her only son was gonna be a star.

Bought all the Beatles records, sounded just like Paul,
Bought all the old Chuck Berry's, 78's and all
And I sat by my record player playing every note they played
And I watched them all on TV, makin' every move they made.

Rock'n'Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
All the dreamy sunny Sundays, all the moon-lit summer nights
I was so busy in the back room, writing love songs to you
While you were changing your direction, and you never even knew
That I was always just one step behind you.

'66 seemed like the year I was really goin' somewhere
We were living in San Francisco, With flowers in our hair
Singing songs of kindness so the world would understand
That the guys and me were something more than just another band.
'69 in LA, came around so soon,
We were really making headway and writing lots of tunes,
And we must have played the wildest stuff we had ever played,
The way the crowds cried out for us,we thought we had it made.

Rock'n'Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
All the crazy, lazy young days, all the magic moon-lit nights,
I was so busy on the road, singing love songs to you
While you were changing your direction, and you never even knew
That I was always just one step behind you.

'71 in Soho, when I saw Suzanne,
I was trying to go it solo with someone else's band
And she came up to me later and I took her by the hand,
And I told her all my troubles and she seemed to my problems and she seemed to understand.

And she followed me to London,through a hundred hotel rooms,
Through a hundred record companies who didn't like my tunes
And she followed me when, finally,I sold my old guitar,
And she tried to help me understand I'd never be a star.

Rock'n'Roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
All the dreamy sunny Sundays, all the moon-lit summer nights,
And though I never knew the magic of making it with you
Thank the Lord for giving me the little bit I knew,
And I will always be one step behind you.

Rock'n'Roll I gave you all the best years of my life,
Singing out my love songs in the brightly flashing lights,
And though I never knew the magic of making it with you,
Thank the Lord for giving me the nlittle bit I knew,

Rock'n'Roll,I gave you all the best years of my life,
All the dreamy sunny sundays,all the moon-lit summer nights,
I was so busy in the back room writing love songs to you,
While you were changing your direction,and you never even knew,
That I was always just one step behind you.