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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...