David Wilcox - Down Inside Yourself lyrics

Somewhere deep in the midwest There's a middle aged man in a midsize car Driving down the middle of the road In the middle of the night He's in the middle of his mid-life crisis And he just decides that he can't go home So he turns the car around and he drives to the airport He flies to New York City where he makes connections for London Where he makes connections for India Where he gets on a train to go to the mountain To see the wise man You know the one The one with the answer for that hole in his heart Well anyway, he climbs the mountain And he sees the wise man come out of the village to greet him He's no dummy, he knows he was coming And he musters up all his fear and anguish And he says Help me shake this nightmare The funk has found my heart I need to move my spirit But I don't know where to start I need to fill this empty But I can't find the missing part I'm just down inside myself And the wise man says, "ah, I used to think the blues were strong because they're true And when they come to get you, there's nothing you can do But now I think that's nonsense and I've got news for you You're just down inside yourself There's times when you've been hopeful And times when you were strong Now you say that's foolish Like your happiness was wrong It's like you've never seen the sunshine When a gray sky comes along You're just down inside yourself" And the middle-aged man, he'd heard some, you know But he had some questions And he was just about to speak When he was interrupted again "Well never mind the questions now You don't have to be so wise Hey, your problem ain't philosophy So get it down to size Right now it's phisiological In a logical disguise You're just down inside yourself But the blues is not your final judgement It's no deep or evil power Hey the cure is very simple And it works in half an hour Get some sleep, eat some broccoli Run a mile, take a shower You're just down inside yourself You're just down inside yourself"