[Verse 1]

Sometimes, I wonder if I should be medicated

If I would feel better just lightly sedated

The feeling comes so fast and I cannot control it

I'm on fire, but I'm trying not to show it

[Refrain]

As it picks me up, puts me down

It picks me up, puts me down

Picks me up, it puts me down

A hundred times a day

It picks me up, puts me down

Chews me up, spits me out

Picks me up, it puts me down

[Verse 2]

I'm always running from something

I push it back, but it keeps on coming

And being clever never got me very far

Because it's all in my head

"You're too sensitive," they said

I said, "Okay, but let's discuss this at the hospital"

[Refrain]

As it picks me up, puts me down

Picks me up, puts me down

Picks me up, it puts me down

A hundred times a day

Picks me up, puts me down

Chews me up, spits me out

It picks me up, puts me down

[Chorus]

But I hear the music, I feel the beat

And for a moment, when I'm dancing, I am free

I hear the music, I feel the beat

And for a moment, when I'm dancing

I am free

I am free

[Bridge]

Is this how it is?

Is this how it's always been?

To exist in the face of suffering and death

And somehow still keep singing?

Oh, like Christ up on a cross

Who died for us, who died for what?

Oh, don't you wanna call it off?

But there is nothing else that I know how to do

But to open up my arms and give it all to you

[Chorus]

'Cause I hear the music, I feel the beat

And for a moment, when I'm dancing

I am free

I am free

I am free

I am free