I'm Down

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 realize

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

I'm down, no one to hear me calling

I'm down, no one to see me falling, I'm down

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, oh, I'm down, oh

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 someones 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

I'm down, no one to hear me calling

I'm down, no one to see me falling, I'm down, I'm down, I'm down