Tuning My Guitar lyrics

I'm thinking what I'm doing

I'm thinking what I've done

I'm thinking 'bout my mother

Who never thought I'd come

Quite this far from nowhere

To hear myself be sung

But I still haven't forgotten

I used to do it just for fun

When all the ones around me

Would wonder if they saw

Or heard me singing somewhere

Tuning my guitar

Knock once, I got ten minutes

And every night's the same

Sometimes I wish I wasn't in it

When I hear them call my name

Same people all around me

And I wonder who they are

I know they're not my family

And they're not my friends by far

They're all the ones around me

I wonder who they are

They hide behind my curtain

And they hope I'll be a star

An' they say, "Get out and sell them"

But selling's not my aim

I'm gonna sing the life I'm living

And try to ease the pain

Of all the ones around me

No matter who you are

Tonight you're gonna hold the curtain

I'm tuning my guitar

And all the ones around me

I wonder who you are

You hide behind my curtain

And they hope I'll be a star

But all the ones around me

Who don't know who you are

You hide and you look uncertain

But you hope I'll be a star

And all the ones, all around me

I don't care who you are

Tonight you're gonna hold the curtain

I'm tuning my guitar

All the ones, all the ones

All the ones around me

And I don't care who you are

Tonight you're gonna hold the curtain

I'm tuning my guitar

Oh all the ones

Who do you think that you are

Tonight you're gonna hold the curtain

I'm tuning my guitar

• Artist:Melanie Safka
• Album:Affectionately Melanie (1969)