Ain't it a little bit funny

What you think you need

To climb a hill

And succeed

You bring the kitchen sink

On down the road

When all you really need

Is a lighter load

Ya gotta lighten your load kid

When you hit the road

I woulda thunk you'd knowed kid

You gotta lighten your load

Ain't it a little bit funny

What you think you need

To write a song

And succeed

That kitchen sink

Ain't no fountain of youth

All you really need

Is the simple truth

Ya gotta lighten your load kid

When you hit the road

I woulda thunk you'd knowed kid

You gotta lighten your load

Ain't it a little bit funny

What we think we need

To live a life

And succeed

We take a little of this

We take a lot of that

When all we really need

Is to give it all back

You gotta lighten your load kid

When you hit the road

I woulda thunk you'd knowed kid

You gotta lighten your load

We gotta lighten our load kid

When we hit the road

You would've thunk we'd knowed kid

We gotta lighten our load

We gotta lighten our load

We gotta lighten our load