Been Down So Long

The wind blows cold when you reach the top
Feels like someone's face is stuck to the bottom of my shoe
I gotta a plastic Jesus, a cordless telephone for every corner of my room
I got everybody, but you tellin' me what to do

Chorus:
I've been down so long
Oh, can't be longer still
I've been down so long
That the end must be drawing near

I looked to everybody but me to answer my prayers
Until I found an angel in the bathroom who said she didn't see nobody worth savin' anywhere
And a blind man said, "Simply like flipping a coin
Don't matter what side it lands on so long as it's somebody else's dime."
'Cause if you're at the top or the bottom it all feels the same
We live out of fear if we're too rich or we're too poor
Guess all I can do is muster up some change and a little bit of faith
And take some dignity with me when I walk through this door
'Cause...
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Gonna take a trip, catch a train
Got a ticket in my hand
And then a fat man takes my money
And like cattle we all stand
I'm just a faceless body lost
In this vast and worthless sea
In a thousand people I do not know
But really they are no different from me
They all have passion
They all have fear
They all have intense confusion
And no sweet moments that are clear
They all have aspirations,
High hopes and dreams
And are really that alone like me

We've been down so long
It can't be that much longer still
We've been down so long
That the end must be
The end must be
That the end must be drawing near