From the recording Confessions & Alibis
Lyrics
I get up in the morning
Ain’t nowhere to head
You wouldn’t even know
If I’m living or I’m dead
Looking for my calling
Looking for my trade
I don’t need a purpose
But I gotta earn a wage
I’m not a man unless on my feet I can stand
And I’m looking for a plan I can buy into completely
When you told me “Yes we can” what you didn’t understand is that I’m not a man
Spent my days in school
Did the best I could
Followed all the rules
Did all they said I should
Life’s a broken promise
An expired guarantee
The only thing I learned
Is that nothing comes for free
As time passes by I continue to become emasculated
All my pride left behind and my confidence ends up decimated
I was filled with glory and vain
I’m just a leaning tower of shame
Sinking in a hole trying to save my soul looking for my life to reclaim
Displaced like a refugee
Thrown out of my home
Fallen from my apogee
I’m bare and all alone
Suffer indignation
Living a disgrace
Condemned to desolation
A home’s more than a place