Well I have known you
Since you were a small boy
And your mama used to say
Well my boy is gonna grow up and be
Some kind of leader some day

Then you'd turn on the radio
And sing with the singer in the band
And your mama would say to you
This isn't exactly what we had planned

But you're a legend in your own time
A hero in the footlights
Playin' tunes to fit your rhyme
But a legend's only a lonely boy
When he goes home alone

And although I know you
Still have the heart of that small boy
Well, you lend it out far too much
And no one woman loving you
Can ever feel if she's been really touched

Then you turn on the radio
And sing with the singer in the band
And think kind of sadly to yourself
This isn't exactly what you had planned

But you're a legend in your own time
A hero in the footlights
Playin' tunes to fit your rhyme
But a legend's only a lonely boy
When he goes home alone

Well a legend's only a lonely boy
When he goes home alone