Under the surfacenBehind these wallsnThis is where I'm hidingnHiding from the worldnThis armoured vesselnThis steel can is my homenAnd I can't get outnAnd no one can get innnNo more will you see me againnAnd oh, I'll never see the light of daynAnd I know I've been under so, under so longnHanging on to my only hopenWhen I feel that I just can't copenI'm looking through my periscopennIn a shallow environment I've been taught to livenBut I always wondered what was in the deepnTrapped in the indecision of which way to gonWhere it's safe and home or where no one has gonennOh, I don't know why I don't get alongnGot too much energy but I still belongnTo a world where all my questions are wrongnAnd they won't ever understand me, sonHanging on to my only hopenStill looking through my periscopennI have a question I would like to asknTo who's ever listeningnTo myselfnDoes everything that you give come back to younAnd if nothing's offered you might as well be deadnnOh no, I have a lot more to givenBut I don'tnDon't know how to let it outnLet it shownNot even to the people I knownSo here I gonnHere I gonHanging on to my only hopenI'm looking through my periscope