I'm Not Down

If it's true a rich man leads a sad life

That's what they say from day to day

Then what do all the poor do with their lives

On judgement day, with nothing to say



I've been beat up, I've been thrown out

But I'm not down, no I'm not down

I've been shown up, but I've grown up

And I'm not down, no I'm not down



On my own I faced a gang of jeering in strange streets, oh

When my nerves were pumping and I fought my fear in

I didn't run, I was not done



I've been beat up, I've been thrown out

But I'm not down, no I'm not down

I've been shown up, but I've grown up

And I'm not down, no I'm not down



'Cause I've lived that kind of day

When none of your sorrows will go away

Go down and down and hit the floor

Go down and down and down some more

Depression

But I now there will be some way

When I can swing everything back my way

Like skyscrapers rising up

Floor by floor, I'm not giving up



So you walk around and think that you're the toughest

In the world, the whole wide world

But you're streets away from where it gets the roughest

You ain't been there



I've been beat up, I've been thrown out

But I'm not down, no I'm not down

I've been shown up, but I've grown up

And I'm not down, no I'm not down



I'm not down

No, I'm not down, no, I'm not down

No, I'm not down, no, I'm not down

No, I'm not down, no, I'm not down