Welcome to my little world...completely self-contained, yeah

Your problems they will soon be gone (we soak up lots of pain), yeah



If life is a reflecting pool--then we are like a sponge, yeah

Absorbing the good with the bad--we soak up...soak it up



So give me all your troubled thoughts

And baggage you can't handle, no

We'll gladly take it off your back (we soak up lots of pain), yeah



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Is it any wonder now-everybody goes insane

Everybody locks the door to keep out any strangers

Everybody's all pent up--everybody's got short fuse

Getting ready to blow up, we live in so much danger



Boys and girls in a line -- Come and get your big reward

Your're not too late Just in time

Put your hand on mine you're mine you're mine



When everybody has gone to bed--and children are asleep, yeah

I sit up late and watch t.v. (and soak up lots of pain), yeah



Little junior on the bus--his notebook by his side, yeah

He hardly ever makes a fuss--he soaks up so much pain



We've traveled far this monkey and me--by airplane boat and train, yeah

We're here to eat up all your sins (and soak up all your pain), yeah



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Boys and girls of every creed--religion and persuasion, nooo

It's time to get up off your knees...we soak up...soak it up

So open the door and let me in--don't question who I am, no

Just shake my hand and give me your name (we soak up...soak it up...)