For the Rest of My Life - Edwyn Collins

Way back when I was all of three

I fell down and skinned my knee

It didn’t matter much to me

C’est la vie

At the tender age of ten, running wild and free

I didn’t get no sympathy, fine by me

I wasn’t concerned with the ways of the world and his wife

The pattern was set in stone for the rest of my life

It doesn’t matter if I win or lose

As long as I am free to choose

It doesn’t matter if I win or lose

As long as I am free to choose

I’d just turned seventeen when it all went wrong

So I sang a different song

In a strange and awkward key

Doh ray me

I cut myself some slack, I headed way down south

And though my heart was in my mouth

I knew that things would turn out fine

Just marking time

I wasn’t concerned with the way of the world and his wife

That pattern was set in stone for the rest of my life

It doesn’t matter if I win or lose

As long as I am free to choose

It doesn’t matter if I win or lose

As long as I am free to choose

And how the years have flown and I’m full grown

With a small child of my own

Who fell down and skinned his knee

C’est la vie

He said

«It doesn’t matter if I win or lose

As long as I am free to choose

It doesn’t matter if I win or lose

As long as I am free to choose»