Everybody's telling me 

You can't do that you can't 

Face up to reality 

You can't do that you can't

Everybody's down on me 

Spreading round the misery 

You can't do that you can't do that 



I get so breathless running circles in my brain 

I get back up so you can knock me down again 

I live to serve and carry round this ball and chain 

But I ain't gonna give it up 



I've got a heart like lead, a millstone round my neck 

Up the hill backwards I can never get ahead 

I can't work fast enough to get my daily bread 

But I ain't never giving up



Why ask for permission?

The answer is "no"

The more that they crush us 

The more we will grow