Poe: Beat of my own drum

Mother spent ten years sitting by a window Scared if she spoke she would die of a heart attack She listened as her dreams silently screamed They drowned like little dolphins caught in a fishnet Dear world i'm pleased to meet you Hey everybody when you walk the walk You gotta back it all up can you talk the talk Hey everybody when I hear the knock Don't wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clock Hey everybody when my daddy died He had a sad sad story living in his eyes Hey everybody when you walk the walk You cannot measure out your life to the tick of a clock I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum Hey everybody Can you walk the walk you gotta back it all up But can you talk the talk Hey everybody can you walk the walk? I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum (Say what?) I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum (Say what?) I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum I wanna live to the beat of my own drum I wanna take to the beat of my own drum I wanna hang ten, high, say pleased to meet you Give to the beat of my own drum I wanna sing to the beat of my own drum I wanna fly, cry, win, lose, live, die, take five Pleased to meet you My daddy spent ten years living on the outside looking in He thought that he would never get back Watched his dream walk across a silver screen And he was standing there when the theatre went pitch black Dear world I'm pleased to meet you Hey everybody when I walk the walk I gotta back it all up I vgotta talk the talk Hey everybody when I hear the knock Don't wanna measure out my life to the tick of a clock Hey everybody--can you walk the walk? I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum (Say what?) I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum (Say what?) I wanna live to the beat of my own drum I wanna laugh to the beat of my own drum I wanna play to the beat of my own drum I wanna hang ten, high, say pleased to meet you I wanna screw up to the beat of my own drum I wanna take it out of town and do it to my drum Scream shout Wipe out Make love to my baby Father: It's a wonderful idea, but it doesn't work. My own drum my own beat Hey did you ever get the feeling that it's really a joke You think you've got it figured out and then you find that you don't So you say goodbye to the world and now you're floating in space You got no sense of nothing not even a time or a place Then suddenly you hear it it's the beat of your heart And for the first time in your life you know your life is about to start I wanna walk to the beat of my own drum Daughter: There's someone knocking in the wall, was it an echo? ba da pa pa