What you’re doing isn’t what you dreamed of. Those dreams have gotten displaced.
Where you are isn’t where you were going. Now your time’s gone to waste.
Who you are isn’t who you are being. That person’s being subdued.
What’s effects everything in this world now…has cast its shadow on you.

And you struggle and sigh cause you don’t like the life that’s been dealt you.
Think the world could be better, but you don’t know what it is that you can do.

Don’t let the man tell you what is what.
Say you’re someone, he’ll try and tell you your not.
Trust him to guide you and your life will go nowhere.
He wants to keep you close at hand.
Makes you his possession and he is the man.
Live for his purpose, so shocked he doesn’t play fair.

You know you’re making some dreams come true…just not for yourself.
Half the time you’ve spent living this life…benefited someone else.
What started as a tool in life… has opened into a hell.
Running yourself down in an exchange…that just isn’t mutual.

Try to take it in stride but just getting thru life makes you so stressed.
Don’t take too much to see what you want isn’t really of their interest.

Don’t let the man tell you what is what.
Say your someone, he’ll try and tell you your not.
Trust him to guide you and your life will go nowhere.
He wants to keep you close at hand.
Makes you his possession and he is the man.
Live for his purpose, so shocked he doesn’t play fair.

I’ll not be owned by a rich man…nor will I be afraid.
Won’t bear that burden my whole damn life…too much a price to be paid.
It’s all the difference in life to me…can’t let myself be used.
Why spend my life dreaming I had another…with so much I’ve left to do? No! NO!

Too much struggle inside…don’t have to wonder why I don’t fit in.
I know I’m better off…cause something isn’t right with their system.

Don’t let the man tell you what is what.
Say your someone, he’ll try and tell you your not.
Trust him to guide you and your life will go nowhere.
He wants to keep you close at hand.
Makes you his possession and he is the man.
Live for his purpose, so shocked he doesn’t play fair.

I may stumble or even fall…I’ll always climb back to my feet.
Keep trying till I get it right…you just can’t give up that easy.
If we stop relying on the man…a smaller man he would be.
We can start to direct our own fate…and life may begin to feel free.
Life just may begin to feel free!