The Cats - Rock & Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life) by The Cats lyrics

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 Mama her only Son was gonna be a Star Bought all the Beatles Records, sounded just like Paul Bought all the old Chuck Berry, 78's and 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 Moonlit Summer Nights I was so busy in the backrooom writing Love Songs to you While you were changing your direction and never even knew That I was always just one step behind you '66 Seems like the year I was really going some where We were living in San Fransisco 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 L.A. 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 And the way Crowds cried out for us, well, we thought we had it made Rock'n'Roll, I gave you all the Best Years of my Life All the Dreamy, Sunny Sundays, all the Moonlit Summer Nights I was so busy in the backrooom writing Love Songs to you While you were changing your direction and never even knew That I was always just one step behind you Dooodooodooodooo.... '71 In Soho when I saw Suzanne I was tryin' to go Solo with someone elses Band And she came up to me later,& I took her by the hand 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; She followed me when finally I sold my old Guitar She tried to help me Understand I'd never be a Star --- .