So you think you're a Romeo

Playing a part in a picture show

Take the long way home

Take the long way home

'Cause you're the joke of the neighborhood

Why should you care if you're feeling good

Take the long way home

Take the long way home

But there are times

That you feel you're part of the scenery

Oh all the greenery is coming down boy

And then your wife seems to

Think you're part of the furniture

Oh it's peculiar she used to be so nice

Lonely days turn to lonely nights

You take a trip to the city lights

And take the long way home

Take the long way home

You never see what you want to see

Forever playing to the gallery

You take the long way home

You take the long way home

When you're up on the stage

It's so unbelievable

Oh unforgettable how they adore you

Then your wife seems to

Think you're losing your sanity

Oh calamity is there no way out

Does it feel that you life's become a catastrophe

Oh it has to be for you to grow boy

When you look through the years

See what you could have been

Oh what you might have been

If you'd had more time

So when the day comes to settle down

Who's to blame if you're not around

You took the long way home

You took the long way home

You took the long way home

You took the long way home

You took the long way home

You took the long way home

You took the long way home

You took the long way home

Long way home

Long way home

Long way home

Long way home

Long way home

Long way home

Long way