Rock & Roll, I Gave You the Best Years of My Life Songtext
von Kevin Johnson

I can still remember when I bought my first guitar
Remember just how good the feeling was
Put it proudly in my car
And my family listened 50 times to my two-song repertoire
And I told my Mom her only son was gonna be a star

Bought all the Beatles records
Sounded just like hall
Bought all the old Chuck Berry′s, 78 in all
And I sat by my record player
Playing every note they played
And I watched them all on TV making every move they made

Rock'n′Roll I gave you all the best years of my life
All the dreamy sunny Sundays, all the moon-lit summer nights
I was so busy in the bedroom writing love songs to you
But you were changing your direction
And I never even knew that I was always just one step behind you


'66 seemed like the year I was really goin' somewhere
We were living in San Francisco with flowers in our hair
Singing songs of kindness, so the world would understand
That the guys and me were something more than just another band

And then ′69 in LA came around so soon
We were really making headway and writing lots of tunes
And we must have played the wildest stuff we had ever played
The way the crowds cried out for us, we thought we had it made

Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
All the crazy lazy young days, all the magic moon-lit nights
I was so busy on the road singin′ love songs to you while you were changin' your direction
And you never even knew that I was always just one step behind you

′71 in Soho, when I saw Suzanne
I was trying to go it solo with someone else's band
And she came up to me later and I took her by the hand
And I told her all my troubles and she seemed to understand

And she followed me through London through a hundred hotel rooms
Through a hundred record companies who didn′t like my tunes
And she followed me when finally, I sold my old guitar
And she tried to help me understand I'd never be a star


Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
All the dreamy sunny Sundays, all the moon-lit summer nights
And though I never knew the magic of makin′ it with you
I thank the Lord for giving me the little bit I knew
And I will always be one step behind you

Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
Singing out my love songs in the brightly flashing lights
And though I never knew the magic of makin' it with you
I thank the Lord for giving me the little bit I knew

Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
All the dreamy sunny Sundays, all the moon-lit summer nights
I was so busy in the bedroom writing love songs to you
But you were changing your direction and I never even knew

Rock and roll, I gave you all the best years of my life
All the dreamy sunny Sundays, all the moon-lit summer nights
And though I never knew the magic of makin' it with you
I thank the Lord for giving me the little bit I knew