Over the Mountain - Daryl Hall, John Oates

People strain a lot

Stretch their brains a lot

To play their way to immortality

Some of them are very smart

And trying awfully hard

To make their mark and last eternally

Seems there ain’t no people dumb enough to see

The sky is full of hawks

Who say that money talks

And only the rich are really free

They tell you that the fact of life

Is that you have to fight

For every cold hard coin that you can see

Well, there ain’t no money soft enough for me

Now there is a mountain

It’s big and it’s wide

And nobody knows what’s on the other side

Oh, some people are curious

And some are afraid

But they’re goin' over that mountain any old way

Over the mountain

Over the mountain

Over the mountain

Over the mountain

Sometimes it rains

And sometimes it shines

The mountain she’s sitting there

All of the time

It’s handsome as Jesus

And ugly as sin

You can stand on the outside but you can’t get in

Over the mountain

Over the mountain

Over the mountain

Over the mountain

Now Boo was a man

Who did as he pleased

He didn’t want to be like you

And he didn’t want to be like me

Oh, a good man of heart, Boo

He threw out the laws

And flew over the mountain like Santa Claus

Over the mountain

Over the mountain

Over the mountain

Over the mountain

Over the mountain

Over the mountain

Over the mountain

Over the mountain

Over the mountain

Over the mountain

Over the mountain

Over the mountain

Over the mountain