SUPERTRAMP - LOGICAL SONG

Logical Song

Supertramp

SONGWRITER: Roger Hodgson & RICK DAVIES

COUNTRY: U.K.

ALBUM: BREAKFAST IN AMERICA

LABEL: A & M

GENRE: PROGRESSIVE ROCK

YEAR: 1979

"The Logical Song" is a song by the English rock band Supertramp. The song was released as the lead single from their sixth studio album, Breakfast in America (1979), in March 1979 by A&M Records.

"The Logical Song" is Supertramp's biggest chart hit in both the United States, South Africa, and their native United Kingdom and is amongst their most widely recognised radio hits. Roger Hodgson composed the song from an autobiographical point of view, from his experience of being sent away to boarding school for ten years. It won the 1979 Ivor Novello Award for "Best Song Musically and Lyrically".

When I was young

It seemed that life was so wonderful

A miracle

Oh, it was beautiful, magical

And all the birds in the trees

Well they'd be singing so happily

Oh, joyfully

Oh, playfully, watching me

But then they sent me away

To teach me how to be sensible

Logical

Oh responsible, practical

And they showed me a world

Where I could be so dependable

Oh, clinical

Oh, intellectual, cynical

There are times when all the world's asleep

The questions run too deep

For such a simple man

Won't you, please, please, tell me what we've learned?

I know it sounds absurd

But, please, tell me who I am

Now watch what you say

Or they'll be calling you a radical

A liberal

Oh fanatical, criminal

Oh, won't you sign up your name?

We'd like to feel you're acceptable

Respectable

Oh presentable, a vegetable

At night when all the world's asleep

The questions run so deep

For such a simple man

Won't you please (won't you tell me?)

Please tell me what we've learned? (can you hear me?)

I know it sounds absurd

But please tell me who I am

Who I am

Who I am

Who I am

('Cause I'm feeling so illogical

D-d-digital

One, two, three, four, five

Oh oh oh oh

Unbelievable

B-b-bloody marvelous)