Back on Your Feet

And how much does it take
 To get back on your feet
 When it all breaks down
 When you bite the grit
 Some say youth is gone
 Stand up and carry on strong
 Against adversity
 To our future to come
 I got nowhere to hide
 Left my pride on the side
 Telling my deeds
 To boozers and freaks
 And I swore to the wind
 I would never grow up
 But I knew it was a lie
 Just a matter of time
 And the path men take
 Are winding, crooked lines
 Stories we write
 On scars not to display
 Hard times come
 And hard times go
 It's up to me to bring it home
 While the wind still blows
 Not a shoulder, not a safe place
 Not a single day with no fire inside
 And how much does it take
 To get back on your feet
 When it all breaks down
 When you bite the grit
 Some say youth is gone
 Stand up and carry on strong
 Against adversity
 To our future to come
 Heads down and we sweat
 Always late, almost dead
 Plodding on in the light
 Fate's a mastery of sleight
 When alone in the dark
 Comes a creepy question mark
 Is it the life we agreed upon
 Or the one we stumbled on
 Not a shoulder, Not a safe place
 Not a single day with no fire inside
 And how much does it take
 To get back on your feet
 When it all breaks down
 When you bite the grit
 Some say youth is gone
 Stand up and carry on strong
 Against adversity
 To our future to come
 So we tread and we dwell
 In the sorrow, through this pain
 And we'll never, oh never
 Be fulfilled with what we hold in hand
 We spend a life to make it work
 It takes a minute to ruin it all
 We spent days, months, years
 Trying to make it work
 But that bloody one minute was worth it all
 And how much does it take
 To get back on your feet
 When it all breaks down
 When you bite the grit
 Some say youth is gone
 Stand up and carry on strong
 Against adversity
 To our future to come