Electric Light Orchestra - Tightrope lyrics

I can keep canaries and

cook on a camper stove

eat baked beans with a spoon

and smell of ginger beer

I can potter into town

and pick up your prescriptions

and if you're ever sad I'll pull

potatoes from your ears

potatoes from your ears

Someday when I'm older I will

Rock upon a porch with you

Rock upon a porch with you

Remembering the stupid things

we did when we were young

A hard boiled egg and soldiers in a

cafe with an ocean view

sitting silently across from you

sipping strawberry daiquiris and

twiddling our thumbs

till we grow old

I just want to quietly

collect up my cavalry

Curl up into a little ball

and plot my revenge

and it might sound stupid but

the saddest thing about growing up

is that I will never think

I'm spiderman again

I'm spiderman again

Someday when I'm older I will

Rock upon a porch with you

Rock upon a porch with you

Remembering when I was young

and I still had my own teeth

and it's sad to think that

there might still be

dreams of ours that won't come true

they probably never will come true

and we'll regret the things we didn't do

and suck on travel sweets till we grow old

Someday when I'm older I will

Rock upon a porch with you

Rock upon a porch with you

Remembering the price of Polos

and the books we used to read

'cause somehow after everything and

everyone that we've been through

I'm kind of looking forward to

rocking back and forth with you

on the front steps of our sweet retirement home