I been through your nursery rhyme   I been through your nursery rhyme    I took all your nickels and dimes    But you left me cold    You wouldn't let me hold    On longer than it took to go    I don't care if I die    I don't even care if I'm in a wheelchair    Or in a bed    Unable to move    For all I know    It's better than what I did today    You lead me on    You bring me up    And then you take away my floor    I'm standing    I'm trying to stand    Somehow you push me down    You let me up and have me on a shoulder    Tell me go on go ahead on    And then you push me down    Down    But I know, I know you want to let me up    Another time    And I don't know why    Sometimes I think maybe    You let me up just to push me down    You let me feel good    Just to let me feel bad    And it was OK    It was so OK    But now I'm slippin'    You gave me one thing    You took away two    I don't know    Oh, what you're trying to do    Am I going down the wrong road    Am I doing the wrong thing    Please let me know    Please tell me loud    I want to know    I'm asking please    Let me know    Let me know the right way    Oh, is there a right way    And I know    Yes I know    That there's a wrong way    I saw today    But you showed me before    That I can lose    All the faith I had    That I can be    So small    That I can lose    All I got    All my faith    All my hope    Where does it go    And you can't tell me any little thing    Because I feel    I feel    So bad    You can be happy    You can laugh laugh laugh    But I take a look    I see the Chinese    I see the Japanese    They're laughing and joking    Having a good time    I see people in the paper    I see the models    Oh what a person    I see them walking down the street    They look so good    But I can't have it    I'm locked up    I'm inside this thing    And I can't    Oh no I cant    I can't get out    I can't take what I want    I can see it    Oh I can see it    But it's not mine    You build me up    You show me these things    You push me down    You say forget it    You can't have anything    You just stay down    I say let me up    Please let me up    You gotta let me up    You pushed me down    Down on the ground    I can't be here    I can't be here    Please make a change    Help me live    I want to give    I want to do    I want to have your life    I want to have your life    Give me your life    Let me up    I know you can let me up    You don't have to keep me down    You don't have to    You don't have to    You don't have to keep me down    Keep these things    Away from me    These bad things    Away from me    I wanna be right    I'm willing to live a routine    I'm willing to exercise my day    I'm willing to give up    Hah, I'm willing    Oh I'm willing    You've got to let me up    You know I'll do anything but    Don't push me down    Don't push me down    You make me wonder    What should I do    Should I come out    Yeah, should I leave this thing    I can do it    I can do it    Is that what you want    I don't think so    But you can change my mind    You can change my mind    You can have me    Have all of me    All but, let me up    Let me up    Give me a chance    Don't push me down    Don't push me down    And you know I    I know, I can't ever    Push you down    I can't ever    Let you up    You got it all    You got it all    Give me some    Give me some of your life    I want your life    I want your life    I'm willing to pay    Pay the price    Out of my life    Take what it costs    You got it all    You always had it all    So take it all    You know you got it    Yeah I'll live on    I'll live on    And I see the Chinese    I see the beautiful people    I want them    But I don't need them    I don't need them    You know what I need    I need you    Give me your life    Give me your life    Take mine    Take my life    You got it    It's always been yours    Always been yours    You got my life    You got it    Give me yours    Give me your life    Give me your life    Give me your life    I need your life    I need your life    I need your life    So what do I do    Just what do I do    You'd better show me    Show me    Don't push me down    Don't push me down    Yeah, yeah I know    You can push me down    You can push me down    You can crush me    You can snuff me out    I don't care    I don't care if I die    I don't care if I'm in a wheelchair    I don't care if I'm in a bed    And I can't even move    Hey, would it be worse than today    You can pick me up    Please pick me up    Oh please    Pick me up    Please    Oh please    Pick me up    You can pick me up    Don't push me down    Don't push me down    I feel bad    I feel bad    I been here before    I've had your nursery rhymes    I've had your nickels and dimes    I had your good times    I had your lovely people    All over me    I liked it    Now they're all gone    Now I'm alone    But you got me still    Yeah you got me still    You let me move around    But you got me still    And you know it    And you let me up    But then you go and push me down    And you hurt me    And times you hurt me bad    And I've got one fear    In my life    And that fear is that I'm slippin'    I'm slipping    And I see it    And I feel it    And I know it    And I know, it doesn't have to be this way    Tell me what I'm doing wrong    Tell me    Tell me what I'm doing wrong    Because I want to be right    I want to be good    I don't want to be bad    I know some people like to be bad    And they sing about being bad    And they say “I'm bad”    You know, I want to be good    I want to be right    I want to be good and right    I don't want to have to fight and lose    Please let me win    Let me win this war    I'm on your side    I'm on your side    What else I gonna do    You push me down    You let me up    I don't want to be down    I don't want to be down    Please    Please    Let me up    Let me win    Let me get this war taken care of    I'll be on your side    Where else am I gonna be    Uhh, I love you    I surely do    If you want me down    I'll be on the ground    But let me feel    Like I'm not losing ground    Let me win    Let me be on top somehow some way    I don't need to be conventional    Let me up    Let me up    Oh please let me up    You know it's been so long    It's been so long    I'm trying to remember    It's not easy    I see myself slipping    I don't want to slip    Let me up    Let me up    I need to be up    I need to be right    I'm willing to work    Ah, work, work    I'm willing to work    I love you    I love you    Ahh, I love you    I love you    Please let me win    Let me win    Somehow let me win    I need to win    Let's not have any misunderstanding    I need to win    I'm asking, please don't push me down    I need to win your love    And I'll do anything    I don't know if I'm hurting myself    I surely hope not    But I feel like I may be slipping    I want some help    So I don't have to go down    'Cause I see the Chinese and the Japanese    Laughing, talking, acting just like animals    Why can't I be like an animal    Take care of myself the right way    Sure would be good nice    Sure    Let me ask you    Another time    Treating me right    Treating me right    I got some kind of feeling I'm not being treated right    I don't know if I'm not treating myself right    Or you're not treating me right    But I'm slipping    And I don't want to be slipping    I want to move on    I want to create    I want to be ahead    I want to win    I want to love    I want to feel like I'm moving and doing things right    But oh I don't feel too good about it    Why not    Why don't I feel good    Hey I don't know about other people    I don't know what they do    I don't know if they feel right    Sometimes they look like they feel just fine and I don't know