Seventeen years in a dead end job   Telling his dreams to a deaf eared god   Hanging on tight by a single thread   Praying for a change      Everything you could have sacrificed   Your flesh and blood had it's own sweet price   Baby's all grown up and moved away   Where's that leave you now?      It was your own decision   You made my life your mission      Somebody tell me   It doesn't make no sense at all   Somebody tell me   Why we're living in a world of contradiction      Somebody tell me   It doesn't make no sense at all   Somebody tell me   Why we're living in a world of contradiction      Why is it so hard to be understood?   Doing so much for the common good   Sorry if I didn't see the truth   The sadness in your eyes      I wanted to stand on my own two feet   Looking at life as a one way street   Thinking that I had it all worked out   Where's that leave me now?      We lost communication   Too many expectations      Somebody tell me   It doesn't make no sense at all   Somebody tell me   Why we're living in a world of contradiction      Somebody tell me   It doesn't make no sense at all   Somebody tell me   Why we're living in a world of contradiction      Everything I have inside   I kept it wrapped up tight   All I know is   All I want to know is   Somebody tell me      Somebody tell me   It doesn't make no sense at all   Somebody tell me   Why we're living in a world of contradiction   In a world of contradiction      Seventeen years in a dead end job   Telling his dreams to a deaf eared god   Hanging on tight by a single thread   Where's that leave you now?