Since you were a small boy
 And your mama used to say
 My boy is gonna grow up and be
 Some kind of leader some day.

 Then you'd turn on the radio
 And sing with the singer in the band
 And your mama would say to you
 This isn't exactly what she had planned.

 But you're a legend in your own time
 A hero in the footlights
 Playin' tunes to fit your rhyme
 But a legends only a lonely boy
 When he goes home alone.

 And although I know you
 Still have the heart of that small boy
 Well, you lend it out far too much
 And no one woman loving you
 Can ever tell if you've been really touched.

 Then you turn on the radio
 And sing with the singer in the band
 And think kind of sadly to yourself
 This isn't exactly what you had planned.

 But you're a legend in your own time
 A hero in the footlights
 Playin' tunes to fit your rhyme
 But a legends only a lonely boy
 When he goes home alone