You can't tell me how to live my life
 But you can watch me do it if you want
 I think you think you might run the tight ship
 And congrats on that but
 In the morning, I am recording
 That's the way it should be when
 That's the way it is
 I'm a man and I'm a mess
 See I go up and down, around
 Cause there's a whirlwind in my head
 Just like a hurricane
 Cause there's a honey and there's a comb
 There's a sugar and a cane
 It's my home and it's my house
 Anyhow, and it's time to go there
 
 Early dawnin', early dawnin'
 Early dawnin', early dawnin'
 
 All my days, closer to dying
 But I am, is what it is
 There's been times, guilty of crimes
 But I won't apologize, I ain't got time
 All my nights, further from livin'
 But I don't mind, take my time
 We got heart, we got soul
 I don't know what I've been told
 Streets of heaven are overflowin'
 I don't know what I've been told
 Streets of heaven, the gorgeous thrones
 
 Early dawnin' early dawnin'
 Early dawnin' early dawnin'