Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing Lyrics

Lyric discussion by swing_forty_two 

Cover art for Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing lyrics by Buffalo Springfield

I think the first verse is about people holding him down and stopping him from what he wants to do.

The second verse is definitly about people who worry too much about everything being perfect, that things are a certain way and you just got to deal with it. Ex.-tune all the bells, counting the score etc

The third is about how happiness is intangible and you just have to find it.