I bought all the Beatles records
And I tried to sound like Paul
I bought all the old Buddy Holly's,
And I sat by my record player
playing every song they played
And I watched them all on TV
Rock and Roll, I gave you all the be
All the magic moonlit nights
I was so busy in the backroom
Writing love songs to you
While you were changing your direction
That I was always one step
And '69 in LA well it came
But we were really making headway
and writin' lots of toons
We must have played the wildest
Because the way the crowds yelled out
for more we thought we had it made
Rock and Roll, I gave you all the be
bright and flashing lights
I was so busy on the road
singing love songs to you
While you were changing your
direction I never even knew
'71 in Soho when I met Suzanne
I was trying to go it solo
And she came up to me later on and I
And I told her all my troubles and she
And she followed me to London
through a hundred hotel rooms
Through a hundred record companies
that didn't like my tunes
And she followed me 'til fi nally
And she tried to help me un derstand
that I would never be a star
