I'm Down

Shook my head out of dreams reality's calling

The early bird's been up all morning

But I've got no notion of moving from where I am

Though my legs won't move I feel disabled

I'm on a shelf an article labelled

Waiting for someone to fetch me from lost and found



I'm down

No one to hear me calling

I'm down

No one to see me falling

I'm down



Had my ways with days of sunshine

Life came easy it all fell in line

But then again I didn't realize

When you're used to one thing it's hard to accept

Another like the woman who brought you up

She ain't your mother

How do you cope with a thing like that



I'm down

No one to hear me calling

I'm down

No one to see me falling

I'm down



I always thought it was my dad who went to war

Thought it was my sister who fell off the wall

My pseudo brother Billy emigrated long ago

Someone went thru'pain to have me

Someone should know

I'm down

I'm down



Folks who brought me up I'm not ungrateful

Kept the secret from me they thought it was shameful

It hurt me so to be the last one to know

Maybe someone's out there looking for me

Left on their own couldn't afford to clothe me

And I,

I don't even know my real name



I'm down

No one to hear me calling

I'm down

No one to see me falling

I'm down

I'm down

I'm down