My mind was a timebomb

That was set to explode

So I packed up my cares

Into the sunset I rode

A path to hell that's paved

With good intentions.

Well I guess you and I

Will never see eye to eye

But if there's one thing I'll be

Glad to know when I die

It's that I never entertained your

'Can't Conventions.'

Two men gaze from behind

Their prison bars

One man sees dirt

The other sees stars

I'm just thinking aloud

Isn't thinking allowed?

Just let your mind wander

It may never come back

Set off on a new train of thought

On life's track.

I'm just thinking aloud

Isn't thinking allowed?

Why is nobody thinking?

How can you call me a failure

Or a social defective

When to find your own mind

You'd need a private detective?

I'm not a statistic or

A regular family man.

I don't give a damn about public relations

I'll never live up to

Your great expectations

You can take or leave me

Just the way I am.

Your straight jacket emotions

Only stifle and kill

The spirit within us all

I call free will.

I'm just thinking aloud

Isn't thinking allowed?

Two men gaze from behind

Their prison bars

One man sees dirt

The other sees stars.

I'm just thinking aloud

Isn't thinking allowed?