Some people say life's like a merry-go-round

I think it's more like a ferris wheel

'Cause sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down

Sometimes you just don't know what to feel



And just when you think you've got the game figured out

And you say you've had enough

The mysterious mad man with his hand on the lever

Don't seem to never ever want to let you off



You can't get off this wheel of karma

You can't stop the hands of time



Now I have a friend, I might have a few

Sometimes I think they just don't care

But I think sometimes they think the same thing of me, yeah

You might say we've got a problem there



You know we all got this habit

We like to talk too much

And that always tends to slow you down

But we never change direction

We just keep going round and round and round and round



And let me off this wheel of karma

Let me stop the hands of time



Seems like I've been around so many places

And I must have learned a lot of things

And although I ain't yet come up with a so-called answer

At least I think I finally learned how to sing



And there's just a few things I ain't got sorted out

Sometimes they make my brain get sore

Like if kids were left of all devices

Would they ever come up with a thing like war



Let us off this wheel of karma

Let us stop the hands of time