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I Been Down
Buffy Sainte-Marie

I am recognizing that the voice inside my head

Is urging me to be myself and never follow someone else

Because cree? Is all like voices, we all have a different kind

So just clean out all your ears, these are my views and you will find


Man,

It's been a minute since it's been this nice out

Blue skies out, no clouds, something to write down

I'll have to go home soon and try to pay the bills

If I had a nickel every time they called I'd make a mill

But such is life, and as much as I'd like it

To be different, hard work is how you make your luck in life, right?

For now I sit here, sip beer, and contemplate

Maybe fiending for a smoke, I'm hoping he can concentrate

Out in the sun I think of everything I've done wrong

Find I can't fit it all in one song, so

For every half truth and every broken promise

Please, accept these words I wrote in open honesty


I apologize for every choice I might have made

To hurt your feelings or your health, to ever bother someone else

Your style of living is your choice, and we all want a different kind

So, please, love all your faults

I do the same with ones we find cause -


I've been up, I've been down

I've been lucky enough to find my higher ground

In all my days, I've hoped and prayed

That one of these days, I'd wake up, get up and go away


Well I've got my rent on my mind, worry most of the time

While wasting never spent hell-bent on the grind

Down the wishing well fell the odd center a dime

But only, seven percent of it supposed to be mine

I'm getting, kinda fed up with trying to get ahead

That's why - 9 out of 10 times I'm liable to be lying in bed

Instead of living life like I'm dead

No longer sit in the prison inside my head

I'm starting to come to my senses and


No longer be so defensive and

Though sometimes seems so senseless

I get back up and go


I've been up, I've been down

I've been lucky enough to find my higher ground

In all my days, I've hoped and prayed

That one of these days I'd just wake up, get up and go away


This song is like a counseling session (whoosah)

I need to channel my aggression (whoosah)

I need to handle my profession

I'm the planet's biggest panic stricken manic-depressant

Questioning myself as I'm sitting right and looking back

Drinking Jack, Heinekens, in both hands, crooked hat

Mr. small complex smoking a cigarette

Like you don't know me, what the fuck you think you're looking at

Why is the fire in my eyes like I'm evil

It's just I'm always suspicious of new people

Self-centered lieutenant, I'm a well balanced soldier

A lie with a strategist's chip on both shoulders

Push the bullshit out of my life, keep biting

Spiritual enlightenment, price this excitement

Build strength within, I'm trying to find space

Freedom of choice, but trying for blind faith


I've been up, I've been down

I've been lucky enough to find my higher ground

In all my days, I've hoped and prayed

That one of these days I'd just wake up, get up and go away


Cause I've been up, I've been down

I've been lucky enough to find my higher ground

In all my days, I've hoped and prayed

That one of these days I'd just wake up, get up and go away


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