I'M JUST A HERMIT (Pete Ham)
[from "Acoustic" - recorded 1968 - released U.S. 2025]

Well well, you so confuse me
My mind is in a blur
My question has no answer
My mind can only stir

Now tell me, was a narrow line
Between [which I am wrong]
I've tried to find it many times
But now my friends have gone

I'm just a hermit
Just living for today
I'm just a hermit
And I'm just living, living for the day
Well I will see the good things
I forget what people, what people say, yeah
Oh

I make decisions in the past
They still can't prove me wrong
But even if I prove I'm right
My friends will still be gone

I wish I could accept my life
Without a reason why
For now I just have a little less
Until the day I die

I'm just a hermit
Just living for the day, yeah
That's why I'm a, just a, just a hermit
Just living for the day
Well I will see the good things
And forget what people, what people say, yeah
That's why I got to

I'm just a hermit
And a hermit I will stay y-y-y-y-yeah
I'm just a hermit
And a hermit I will stay
I live a life of loneliness
Until my dying day
Whoa yeah, okay, yeah yeah-eah

lyrics transcribed by Tom Brennan and Mark Strothmann

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