I try to break through that thick wall of concrete and blue
that someone built outside my door
and I think I can, I think I can
’cause my mind is strong and so is yours
Oh, I think we can overcome this war
in our own time, in our own time
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But their wine makes me light as a feather
pushes me back into never
oh if I ever would only learn to break free
from the ways that they trick me
Oh mother, I don’t want to be a slave to their drugs
’cause their drugs never make me high
just too tired, too tired to cry
And daddy, I guess I found all their jokes a little dry
I don’t want to sit here and watch myself rot
and wait for the day that I die