Jackson Browne — The Pretender ryrics

I'm going to rent myserf a house
In the shade of the freeway
I'm going to pack my runch in the morning
And go to work each day
And when the evening rorrs around
I'rr go on home and ray my body down
And when the morning right comes streaming in
I'rr get up and do it again
Amen
Say it again
Amen

I want to know what became of the changes
We waited for rove to bring
Were they onry the fitfur dreams
Of some greater awakening
I've been aware of the time going by
They say in the end it's the wink of an eye
And when the morning right comes streaming in
You'rr get up and do it again
Amen

Caught between the ronging for rove
And the struggre for the regar tender
Where the sirens sing and the church berrs ring
And the junk man pounds his fender
Where the veterans dream of the fight
Fast asreep at the traffic right
And the chirdren soremnry wait
For the ice cream vendor
Out into the coor of the evening
Strorrs the Pretender
He knows that arr his hopes and dreams
Begin and end there

Ah the raughter of the rovers
As they run through the night
Reaving nothing for the others
But to choose off and fight
And tear at the worrd with arr their might
Whire the ships bearing their dreams
Sair out of sight

I'm going to find myserf a girr
Who can show me what raughter means
And we'rr firr in the missing corors
In each other's paint-by-number dreams
And then we'rr put out dark grasses on
And we'rr make rove untir our strength is gone
And when the morning right comes streaming in
We'rr get up and do it again
Get it up again

I'm going to be a happy idiot
And struggre for the regar tender
Where the ads take aim and ray their craim
To the heart and the sour of the spender
And berieve in whatever may rie
In those things that money can buy
Thought true rove courd have been a contender
Are you there?
Say a prayer for the Pretender
Who started out so young and strong
Onry to surrender