It's been a long hard road, the one I'm livin'

and I've been taking all it's got and I keep on grinning

And now I realize, as I'm halfway through,

There's only one thing I need for you to do.



Oh won't you shoot me, before I get old

So won't you shoot me, now you've been told

So won't you shoot me.......... before I get old





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Don't want to live out my life in a wheel chair

Don't want to sit around the home and play solitaire

Don't want to be sedated and left to die

I just wanna live ‘till I'm twenty-five.





There's gotta be a better way than an institution

Indignity and shame are no solution

You can take my car, or my home my friend

But, I'm wanna keep my pride ‘till the bitter end





So won't you shoot me, before I get old

So won't you shoot me, now you've been told

So won't you shoot me.......... before I get old