Mother spent ten years sitting by a window Scared if she spoke she would die of a heart attack She listened as her dreams silently screamed They drowned like little dolphins caught in a fishnet Dear world I'm pleased to meet you Hey everybody when you walk the walk You gotta back it all up can you talk the talk? Hey everybody when I hear the knock Don't wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clock Hey everybody when my daddy died He had a sad sad story living in his eyes Hey everybody when you walk the walk You can not measure out your life to the tick of a clock I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum Walk to the beat of my own drum I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum Hey everybody When you walk the walk You gotta back it all up Can you talk the talk? Hey everybody When I hear the knock You wanna measure out my life To the tick of a clock Hey every-, hey everybody Can you walk the walk? I wanna walk to the beat of my own drums (Say wha-wha-what you wanna?) I wanna walk to the beat of my own drums (Say wha-wha-what you wanna?) Walk to the beat of my own drums (Say wha-wha-what you wanna?) I wanna walk to the beat of my own drums (Say wha-wha-what you wanna?) Walk to the beat of my own drum I wanna live to the beat of my own drum I wanna laugh to the beat of my own drum I wanna hang ten, hi, say pleased to meet you Take to the beat of my own drum I wanna give to the beat of my own drum Fly, cry, win, lose, live, die, take five Pleased to meet you My daddy spent ten years living on the outside looking in He thought that he would never get back, hey, get back Watched his dream walk across a silver screen And he was standing there when the theater went pitch black Dear world I'm pleased to meet you Hey everybody when I walk the walk I gotta back it all up can I talk the talk? Hey everybody when I hear the knock Don't wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clock Hey every-, Hey every-, Hey every-, Hey everybody Can you walk the walk? Walk, walk, walk Can you walk the walk? I wanna walk to the beat of my own drums (Say wha-wha-what you wanna?) I wanna walk to the beat of my own drums (Say wha-wha-what you wanna?) Walk to the beat of my own drums (Say wha-wha-what you wanna?) I wanna walk to the beat of my own drums (Say wha-wha-what you wanna?) Hey, Play to the beat of my own drum I wanna sing to the beat of my own drum I wanna play to the beat of my own drum I wanna hang ten, hi, say pleased to meet you Screw up to the beat of my own drum I wanna dig it out of dirt and do it to my drum Scream shout Wipe out Win, lose, wipe out Saunter down my street Make love to my baby To my baby Make love to my baby To my baby, oh Father : It's a wonderful idea, but it doesn't work. My own drum, my own beat My own drum, my own beat Did you ever get the feeling that it's really a joke You think you've got it figured out and then you find that you don't So you say goodbye to the world and now you're floating in space You got no sense of nothing not even a time or a place Suddenly you hear it is the beat of your heart And for the first time in your life you know your life is about to start Oh, yeah, when you're alone Hey everybody Hey everybody Hey everybody when you walk the walk You gotta back it up, back it up, back it up, back it what? Say wha-wha-wha-wha-wha-wha-wha-wha-wha-what you wanna? Say wha-wha-wha-wha-wha-wha-wha-wha-wha-what you wanna? I wanna walk to the beat of my own drums Hey everybody, hey everybody I wanna walk to the beat of my own drums Hey everybody, hey everybody I wanna walk to the beat of my own drums Daughter : There's someone knocking in the wall. Was it like an echo? Ba da pa pa...