Good Guys and the Villains

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Little man in a big world
The land so large
And problems so small
Little ears trusting in every word they hear
Someday he'll work the factory
And grow to be six feet tall

His mother will always see him in his toddler years
He believes in what he sees (ooh)
And he says what he means (ooh)
If only everything were exactly like it appeared (oh)

Sometimes the outcasts look like trouble
And the enemies look like friends
Oh, it takes a little livin'
To know just where you stand

Little boy with big opinions
One size too small for his adult britches
Thinkin' he's got life figured out
All the problems and solutions

Someday, oh someday
He'll learn to love a woman
And he'll tell his little man
Gosh, women are hard to understand

Oh, he packed his bags (packed his bags)
To catch his train (catch his train)
To find his own way
No one could tell him to stay (ooh)
It'll take many times (many times)
To realize he still needs advice
And the wisdom of the wise
That have gone before (ooh)

Sometimes, the good things and the bad
Are lost in the expectations we have
And it takes a little livin'
To know what really lasts

Young man in a mean world
Politics and the grind at work
It seems like you have to earn your happiness (ooh)
Young man on his white horse
Fallin' to his hearty corpse
He's not as invincible as he thought he might be (mm)

Oh, he stood and he fell (mm)
Good times in heaven and times like hell (mm)
Tightening his fist toward the voiceless sky (mm, mm)
If there really were higher meaning (mm)
Then why do good men die? (Mm)
And the wolves with bad intentions (mm)
Get away with their lives

Sometimes the good guys and the villains
Get dressed in gray opinions
And it leaves us to question
Where the heroes stand

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