Some people like to bring you down
Some'll even mess you 'round
You climb aboard life's roundabout
And turn your body inside out
There's people trodding on your feet
You just don't seem to make ends meet
You're working at the break of day
There's always some bum in your way
You believe in tomorrow
Why I'm breathing today
You got something to tell the world
You got something to say
See the black and the white man just ain't groovin' all they can
Don't you know that it's time that you find out your borderline?
I feel something inside me
Lord only knows I need to be free
Paid my debt to society, but police a-keep finding me
I see the black and the white man ain't groovin' all they can
Don't you know that it's time you find out your borderline?