Your family can't help you  They're standing in your way  Tight restrictions, contradictions  More rules every day  Hold you down, they hold you down  You've got to get away  London's calling, no more stalling  Sleeping in your own doorway    Never stop to reason  Never question why  The word's out there and they don't care  Still you're gonna try  Hold you down, they hold you down  They'd never let you go  And now you've been, at last you've seen  And now I think you know  That you've been...    [Chorus:]  Running down the road to kingdom come  (Wouldn't believe me)  Never gave a thought  To all the people  That you're running from  Running down the road to kingdom come  (Who'd've believed it)  And all the time you only want a home    Your countrymen are peasants  You hate to have them near  You just can't seem to realise  You've got nothing to fear  Hold them down, you'll hold them down  You'll keep them in their place  It's hard to find a land so blind  It turns on its own race  And you're still...    [Chorus]    I wish to god  That someone here could help you  I wish someone could help you sort your fate  But you must do all the things you feel you have to  And when we realise it's too damn late    This world is too damn idle  It has to pay its way  Cut down the trees and clear the seas  Let's live for today  Hold it down, we'll hold it down  That preservation noise  Cause after all it won't be long  We'll hear nothing at all  And we're all.....    [Chorus repeat]