[Lyric] I Gotta Get The World Off My Back (Bill Martin & Phil Coulter)

Well, I gotta get the world off my back
Oh pretty soon I'm gonna crack
So I gotta get the world off my back, somehow...baby

Now I'm sitting here thinking 'bout the poems I used to write when I was just a little boy. I thought that when I grew up everything would be just fine - fancy clothes, cigars, driving fast cars. But now I've grown up...

And I gotta get the world off my back
My mind is beginning to go black
So I gotta get the world off my back, somehow...baby

I grew up and looked around me, and I saw that the world was in a mess. Thousands of hungry people, children starving, wars, injustice, and everybody kept picking on me...

So I gotta get the world off my back
Oh pretty soon I'm gonna crack
So I gotta get the world off my back, somehow...baby

So I gotta get the world off my back
My mind is beginning to go back
So I gotta get the world off my back, somehow...baby