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 Intro and Verse:

Down here at the bottom when you're staring at the top

With a headful of ideas, I'm only flesh and blood

On an eiderdown of glory and a pillow of desire

Drifting on an ocean and the waves wash through my mind

Something haunts us, kicks the stars from our skies

Blows the lights out with a whisper and sighs

 If you're down, down, I'm down, down

 And when you're down, down, I'm down, down

Well I was nearly me and you were nearly you

The nearly man was nothing, he was never any use

Beaten down by generations of generations beaten down

There's nothing I can promise that my conscience will allow