The Up" by Utopia, from the album Swing to the Right



I can't stand to watch the six o'clock news

It's enough to give an average sensitive person the blues

I can't get it up

I don't know about commercial appeal

But what you put in your head just can't help affect how you feel

So let's keep it up



Prophets of doom try to capture you

They get around like the Asian flu

But they can't get me



chorus:

Because I go for the up (I'm on the up side)

I look for the up (That down just ain't my style)

I go for the up

I'm hooked on the up (I'm on the upswing)

I look for the up (I got my sights set high)

I go for the up



What's the point of standing out in the rain

What's the sense in looking down it just gives your shoulders a pain

I can't get it up

It's a self-fulfilling prophesy

If you look for the worst, then that's just what it turns out to be

So keep looking up



The fickle finger just may point your way

It touches someone different every day

But it can't touch me



chorus



And everybody's yelling at me to get back into line

And they say I'm crazy

But still they have their sessions

Of deep depressions

But it can't get me