You Can't Do That

Everybody's telling me

You can't do that you can't

Face up to reality

You can't do that you can't

Everybody's down on me

Spreading round the misery

You can't do that you can't do that



I get so breathless running circles in my brain

I get back up so you can knock me down again

I live to serve and carry round this ball and chain

But I ain't gonna give it up



I've got a heart like lead, a millstone round my neck

Up the hill backwards I can never get ahead

I can't work fast enough to get my daily bread

But I ain't never giving up



Why ask for permission?

The answer is "no"

The more that they crush us

The more we will grow