You're wearing steel boots – on an endless escape route
And they just keep dragging you down
Like a rhino in swampland you are crawling on your hands
But the mud just pulls you down
You get swallowed by the water and drowned into silence
Like a block of concrete you go down
Your eyes are drawn upwards as you sink into darkness,
The light fades out and you are done
It sounds like a nightmare, but I'm chained up inside there
Every year I live gets me more down, down, down
Yeah
I am torn into deep sea, by the people who love me,
I'm a barrel of burdens going down, down, down
The hounds are released and soon they will find you,
You know they'll hunt you down
You try to move but you stumble the load is too heavy
You lose your grip and you go down
It sounds like a nightmare, but I'm chained up inside there
Every year I live gets me more down, down, down
Yeah
I am torn into deep sea, by the people who love me,
I'm a barrel of burdens going down, down, down