i sold my soul 

well now your heart once burned bright like the sun 
but now you're all grown up and those days are done 
and you don't love anyone, you don't have any fun 
you forgot how to fly when you learned how [bad word] 
 [bad word] that you're no longer young 
and the strain of living life under the gun 
is driving you crazy. the face of a lady 
is burned in your brain and now here you are saying to me 

i sold my soul 

you once had a lady who could get you to dance 
but the love of you life didn't fit in your plans 
when you got a good job and you thought it was your shot 
to [bad word] a rich man you just get one chance 

so you left for the city but she [bad word] too 
you forgot about her, she forgot about you 
and you spent your life being used like a tool 
what a fool, what a stupid fool i've been, you say 

i sold my soul 

mama take me home 

you're the one that i want and i'm gonna get you back 
cuz this life without you is dead and black 
and lovin' is what i got to give 
i'm gonna quit my job i'm gonna start to live 

and stop being a slave 
i gotta stop being afraid 

you once had a passion for the art that you made 
but your daddy said "NO! you gotta get paid 
and if you follow this path, kid, i'm afraid 
can you feel my fear? you should be afraid!" 

so you let that fear color all you could see 
you just wanna be safe, who needs to be free? 
so you sold your soul, but low and behold! 
you still got no security