My Way

(Paul Anka - Jacques Revaud - Claude Francois - Gilles Thibaud)



And now the end is near and so I face the final curtain

My friend I'll say it clear I'll state my case of which I'm certain

I've lived a life that's full I traveled each and every highway

And more, much more than this I did it my way.



Regrets I've had a few but then again too few to mention

I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption

I planned each chartered course each careful step along the byway

And more, much more than this I did it my way.



Yes, there were times I'm sure you knew

When I bit off more than I could chew

But through it all when there was doubt

I ate it up and spit it out

I faced it all and I stood tall and did it my way.



I've lived, I've laughed and cried I've had my fill my share of losing

And now as tears subside I find it all so amusing

To think I did all that and may I say not in a shy way

Oh no, oh no not me I did it my way.



For what is a man what has he got if not himself then he has not

To say the things he truly feels and not the worlds of one who kneels

The record shows I took the blows and did it my way

Yes, it was my way...