Three thousand miles of wilderness   Overcome by the flow,   A lonely restitution of pavement,   Pomp and show,   I seek a thousand answers,   I find but one or two,   I maintain no discomfiture,   My path again renewed,      Against the grain,   That's where I'll stay,   Swimming upstream,   I maintain against the grain      Here labelled as lunatic,   Sequestered and content,   There ignored and defeated   By the government,   There's an oriented public who's magnetic   Force does pull,   But away from the potential of the individual,      Against the grain,   That's where I'll stay,   Swimming upstream,   I maintain against the grain      The flow is getting stronger   With smaller increments of time and eddies   Of new ideas are increasingly hard to find,   You need all that the other has,   Your right to seize the day   But in all your acquisitions you will soon   Be swept away,      Against the grain,   That's where I'll stay,   Swimming upstream,   I maintain against the grain      There's a common consensus   And an uncomfortable cheer,   A reverberating chorus that anyone can hear,   It sings "leave your cares behind you,   Just grab tenaciously",   This lulling sense or purpose will   Destroy us rapidly,      Against the grain,   That's where I'll stay,   Swimming upstream,   I maintain against the grain