Clash The I`m Not Down Lyrics

I`m Not Down Lyrics

If it's true that a rich man leads a sad life
N' that's what they from day to
day
Then what do all the poor do with their lives?
Have nothing to say on
judgment day?

I've been beat up, I've been thrown
Out but I'm not
down, I'm not down
I've been shown up, but I've grown up
And I'm not
down, I'm not down

On my own I faced a gang of jeering in strange
streets
When my nerves were pumping and I
Fought my fear in, I did not
run
I was not done

And I have lived that kind of day
When one of
your sorrows will go away
It goes down and down and hit the floor
Down
and down and down some more
Depression
But I now there'll be some
way
When I can swing everything back my way
Like skyscrapers rising
up
Floor by floor, I'm not giving up

So you rock around and think
that
You're the toughest
In the world, the whole wide world
But you're
streets away from where
It gets the roughest
You ain't been there