Hold back - what for?

I'll only ask you once more

The time is right to have it out

The time is nigh for coming out

It's just that small town small mind

Excuse we've heard to many times

Why must you live as you're told

By your brother twice as old

So you should save some cash - it's wise

To have some standing by

In case that moment does come

You're seventeen on the run



When you had the chance

You should have let us know

When you had the chance

You should have told us so

'Cause the night life has

Made clear just what's en vogue

I ask you to have it out

Would you let us know?



Back to the query posed

This endless game of telephone

When will you move to a downtown

L.A. won't be that town

As it's sung, "Sell all of your clothes,

Be mad, rash, squander cash"

The records that you once owned

They echo out your old home



Moving to the larger cities

Impulse thinking keeps you busy

A night job has to pay day bills

Moving to the larger cities

Impulse thinking keeps you busy

Your excuse list can go on and on and on...