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Build me up, don't get me down

 Weather the storm

 Well, life goes on

Feelings ebb and flow by hours

 You're up in the clouds

 and then you sink like a stone

 So do you feed yourself with pills?

 Hope to deaden your ills

 Or are you only one love short

of happiness

 And in a picture on the wall

 No glimmer of yourself at all

 You've left yourself far away

Build me up, don't mop my brow

 Weather the storm? No...

 Because life goes on

It's my only hope right now

 To soar like a bird

 and not to sink like a stone

 So do you feed yourself with pills?

 Oh, to deaden your ills?

 Or are you only one love short

 Of happiness

 And in a picture on the wall

 No glimmer of yourself at all

 You've left yourself far away

Solo

 Oh, so do you feed yourself with pills?

 To cure you of your ills

 Or are you only one love short

 Of the happy days to come

 And in a picture on the wall

 You can't see your face at all

 So unti yourself

 Because that's all you've got to do

 And I can grow a pair of wings

 And I can take off flying

There'll be no crying

Up in the air, looking back down

 And let me tell you, if I talk about gloom

 I don't get out of feeling down

 It strips you of yourself

 and it splits you from the self that you know...