does you mother tell you things? long, long when i'm gone? who you talking to? is she telling you i'm the one? it's a grave mistake and i'm wide awake. drive-in's rained out weatherman wet-fingers the sky he pokes it out, he pulls it in he don't know why it's the same mistake it's been a long time running it's been a long time running it's well worth the wait we don't go anywhere just on trips we haven't seen a thing we still don't know where it is it's a safe mistake it's been a long time running it's been a long time running well, well it's all the same mistake dead to rights and wide awake i'll drop a caribou, i'll tell on you i'll tell on you, i'll tell on you you've got a boat-load o'nerve but i would say you've been told you work me against my friends and you'll get left out in the cold it's the same mistake it's been a long time running it's been a long time running it's been a long, long, long time running it's well worth the wait