Please don't let me fall in again,
my arms are tired of swimming upstream to the end,
where life begins it seems.
Say you know me,
you don't know what I've seen.
Say you understand,
but I just don't think you ever can or ever will.
Say you know what it's like to be me,
swimming with misery,
and the current's pulled me down the stream.
I'm just a man, trying to do the best I can,
like you to get ahead,
but every day everything is taken away
by people like you with more than me.