Текст песни Rock & Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life) - 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 fifty 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