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Real Man Lyrics By Todd Rundgren

    when i was a child
    i thought as a child
    i spoke as a child
    i didn’t know better better

    but now i’m a man
    i look like a man
    i’m old as a man
    and i should know better better

    pre
    got my head in the sky
    and my mind knows what it wants
    but my body just drags me down

    and my world is something you can’t see
    but it’s still very real to me
    you can find it in the hole where i keep my soul
    there it is way down inside me

    there’s a real man
    forget about my body and be a real man

    i see with my heart
    i hear with my heart
    i feel with my heart
    sometimes it works better better

    pre
    and some socalled friends put me down
    and they pity me for trying
    bad emotions push me around

    but the vision shines on and on
    it will shine when we all are gone
    and i’d like to add a little sparkle while i’m here
    light it up way down inside me

    there’s a real man a real man
    forget about bad feelings and be a real man

    some men’s world is only hate and money
    afraid of everything and they laugh at nothing
    and they only live to criticize

    pre
    you can laugh at me now ha ha ha
    but the time comes to everybody
    when you must decide

    when that day finally comes along
    you might wish you’d been a little more strong
    then you’ll wake up in the morning cryin’ oh my god
    there it is way down inside me

    it’s a real man
    you got to grow up sometime
    be a real man a real man
    suffer them slings and arrows
    be a real man
    now be a real man
    don’t sell yourself for nothing
    be a real man be a real man
    don’t take no crap from no one
    be a real man be a real man
    get your trip together
    be a real man be a real man

    Artist: Todd Rundgren

    Year: 1975

    Decade: 70s

    Language: en

    Word Count: 161