(clarke sylvester hicks)

Shook my head out of dreams

Reality's calling

The early bird's been up all morning

But i've got no notion of moving from where i am



Though my legs won't move

I feel disabled

I'm on a shelf an article labeled

Waiting for someone to fetch me from lost and found



I'm down no one to hear me calling

I'm down no one to see me falling

I'm down



Had my ways

With days of sunshine

Life came easy it all fell in line

But then again i didn't realise



When you're used to one thing

It's hard to accept another

Like the woman who brought you up

Well she ain't your mother

How do you cope

With a thing like that



Chorus



I always thought it was my dad who went to war

Thought it was my sister who fell off the wall

My pseudo-brother billy emigrated long ago

Someone went through pain to have me

Someone i should know



I'm down

I'm down



To the folks who brought me up

I'm not ungrateful

Kept the secret from me

They thought it was shameful

It hurt me so

To be the last one to know



Maybe someone's out there

Looking for me

Left on their own

Couldn't afford to clothe me

And i i don't even know my real name



Chorus



I'm down

I'm down

I'm down