What`s this I hear 
There`s a whole lotta talk 
The people say you try to quit the kid 


Hey yeah 
Tell me what you did 
You can call it what you want 
But I call it messin` with the kid 


Now the kid plays hot 
And hot don`t pay 
I say what I mean, I mean what I say 


Yeah, yeah 
Tell me what you did 
You can call it what you want 
But I call it messin` with the kid 


Well tell me you love me 
You tell me a lie 
But I know I love ya baby, `til the day I die 


Hey yeah 
Tell me what you did 
You can call it what you want 
But I call it messing with the kid 


Elwood, Elwood! 
-Yeah? 
You wanna mess with the kid? 
-Nah Jake, I don`t wanna mess with the kid... 
Yeah I know, I know that. How about you guys back here? You wanna 
mess with the kid? Any of you guys? How about you people out 
there you wanna mess with the kid? 


Gonna take the kid`s car 
Drive around town 
Tell everybody trying to put him down 


Hey yeah 
Tell me what you did 
You can call it what you want 
I call it messin` with the kid