The song Playing Possum is performed by Carly Simon in the album named Collector's Edition in the year 2009 .
We lived up here in Cambridge
And browsed in the hippest newsstands
The we started our own newspaper
Gave the truth about Uncle Sam
We loved to be so radical
But like a ragged love affair
Some became disenchanted
And some of us just got scared
Now are you playing possum
Keeping a low profile
Are you playing possum for a while
then you moved to the country
Bought a farm and tilled the land
Then you took your books to India
And got hooked on a holy man
But the wells they do run dry
And the speeches turn to words
And the woods are full of tigers
And freedom's for the birds
Now you run a bookstore
And you've taken on a wife
You wear patches on your elbows
And you live an easy life
But are you finally satisfied
Is it what you were lookin' for
Or does it sneak up on you
that there might be something more
Carly Simon - Collector's Edition
Collector's Edition
- Anticipation
- The Right Thing to Do
- That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be
- Haven't Got Time for the Pain
- Waterfall
- Mockingbird
- Legend in Your Own Time
- Back Down to Earth
- We Have No Secrets
- Darkness 'Til Dawn
- You're So Vain
- Jesse
- Vengeance
- You Belong to Me
- Come Upstairs
- Playing Possum
- You Know What to Do
- The Girl You Think You See
- Take Me as I Am
- One More Time
- Never Been Gone
- Devoted to You
- Not a Day Goes By
- Boys in the Trees
- It Happens Everyday
- We're So Close
- Julie Through the Glass
- Older Sister
- I Get Along Without You Very Well
- For Old Time's Sake