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