Mother spent ten years sitting by a window
  Scared if she spoke she would die of a heart attack
  She listened as her dreams silently screamed
  They drowned like little dolphins caught in a fishnet
  
  Dear world i'm pleased to meet you
  
  Hey everybody when you walk the walk
  You gotta back it all up can you talk the talk
  Hey everybody when I hear the knock
  Don't wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clock
  
  Hey everybody when my daddy died
  He had a sad sad story living in his eyes
  Hey everybody when you walk the walk
  You cannot measure out your life to the tick of a clock
  
  I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
  I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
  
  Hey everybody
  Can you walk the walk you gotta back it all up
  But can you talk the talk
  Hey everybody
  can you walk the walk?
  
  I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
  (Say what?)
  I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
  (Say what?)
  
  I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
  I wanna live to the beat of my own drum
  I wanna take to the beat of my own drum
  I wanna hang ten, high, say pleased to meet you
  
  Give to the beat of my own drum
  I wanna sing to the beat of my own drum
  
  I wanna fly, cry, win, lose, live, die, take five
  Pleased to meet you
  
  My daddy spent ten years living on the outside looking in
  He thought that he would never get back
  Watched his dream walk across a silver screen
  And he was standing there when the theatre went pitch black
  
  Dear world I'm pleased to meet you
  
  Hey everybody when I walk the walk
  I gotta back it all up I vgotta talk the talk
  Hey everybody when I hear the knock
  Don't wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clock
  
  Hey everybody--can you walk the walk?
  
  I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
  (Say what?)
  I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
  (Say what?)
  
  I wanna live to the beat of my own drum
  I wanna laugh to the beat of my own drum
  I wanna play to the beat of my own drum
  I wanna hang ten, high, say pleased to meet you
  
  I wanna screw up to the beat of my own drum
  I wanna take it out of town and do it to my drum
  
  Scream shout
  Wipe out
  Make love to my baby
  
  Father: It's a wonderful idea, but it doesn't work.
  
  My own drum my own beat
  
  Hey did you ever get the feeling that it's really a joke
  You think you've got it figured out and then you find that you don't
  So you say goodbye to the world and now you're floating in space
  You got no sense of nothing not even a time or a place
  Then suddenly you hear it it's the beat of your heart
  And for the first time in your life you know your life is about to start
  
  I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum
  
  Daughter:
  There's someone knocking in the wall, was it an echo? ba da pa pa