| So you think you’re a Romeo
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| Playing a part in a picture-show
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| Take the long way home
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| Take the long way home
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| Cos you’re the joke of the neighborhood
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| Why should you care if you’re feeling good
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| Take the long way home
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| Take the long way home
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| But there are times that you feel you’re part of the scenery
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| All the greenery is comin' down, boy
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| And then your wife seems to think you’re part of the
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| Furniture oh, it’s peculiar, she used to be so nice.
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| When lonely days turn to lonely nights
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| You take a trip to the city lights
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| And take the long way home
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| Take the long way home
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| You never see what you want to see
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| Forever playing to the gallery
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| You take the long way home
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| Take the long way home
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| And when you’re up on the stage, it’s so unbelievable,
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| Unforgettable, how they adore you,
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| But then your wife seems to think you’re losing your sanity,
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| Oh, calamity, is there no way out?
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| Does it feel that you life’s become a catastrophe?
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| Oh, it has to be for you to grow, boy.
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| When you look through the years and see what you could |
| Have been oh, what might have been,
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| If you’d had more time.
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| So, when the day comes to settle down,
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| Who’s to blame if you’re not around?
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| You took the long way home
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| You took the long way home… |