Words and Music by John Kay and Morgan Cavett



Now when you're down and troubled

Like orphan in a storm

And you feel life's weight upon you

Your body's cold and worn

You know that there's no mercy 

For a child without a home

For the streets they hold no comfort

For a nameless soul unknown



And your life it lies before you

Like a rainbow 'round the sun

And the promised they made to you

They always seem to get undone



You're fighting waves of vast indifference

On the high and raging sea

You are the captain of your destiny

Nobody else can find the way for you to see



When you can't see the way before you

For the darkness in your head

Remember only you can lead yourself to be misled



I'm standing by the wayside

With all my scars from time

Reading books of long gone heroes

Who died between the lines

I climb their walls of anger

They build with words of stone

Fighting on with tongue and dagger

'Til blood and truth are shown



© 1976 Rambunctious Music (ASCAP) / Belly King Music (BMI)