They mocked me when I was singing the songs   Trying to get back to something more simple than we have   They mocked me 'cos I told it like it was      Wrote about disappointment and greed   Wrote about what we really didn't need in our lives   Make us feel alive and whole      Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand   And straight reality is always cold   Saying something hard edged is off the wall   And it might seem too bold      Mocked me when it got out of hand   Nobody tried to understand   Now we got to keep it simple and that's that      Illusions and pipe dreams on the one hand   And straight reality is always cold   Saying something hard edged is off the wall   And it just might be too bold      Well I'm down here on the running board   Where I've been many times before   But we got to keep it simple to save ourselves      Mocked me when I tried to get back   Said the train was completely off the track   And we got to get back to something simple to save ourselves      Whoa we got to get back to something simple just to save yourselves   Well got to get back to something simple just to save yourselves   Well you got to keep it simple, keep it simple just to - and that's that      Whoa you got to keep it simple nowadays and that's just that   Whoa you got to keep it simple nowadays and that's just the way it is   And you got to keep it simple these days 'cos that's the way it is      Well you got to keep it, keep it simple and that's that