Somewhere deep in the midwest   There's a middle aged man in a midsize car   Driving down the middle of the road   In the middle of the night   He's in the middle of his mid-life crisis   And he just decides that he can't go home      So he turns the car around and he drives to the airport   He flies to New York City where he makes connections for London   Where he makes connections for India   Where he gets on a train to go to the mountain   To see the wise man   You know the one   The one with the answer for that hole in his heart      Well anyway, he climbs the mountain   And he sees the wise man come out of the village to greet him   He's no dummy, he knows he was coming   And he musters up all his fear and anguish   And he says      Help me shake this nightmare   The funk has found my heart   I need to move my spirit   But I don't know where to start   I need to fill this empty   But I can't find the missing part   I'm just down inside myself      And the wise man says, "ah,   I used to think the blues were strong because they're true   And when they come to get you, there's nothing you can do   But now I think that's nonsense and I've got news for you   You're just down inside yourself      There's times when you've been hopeful   And times when you were strong   Now you say that's foolish   Like your happiness was wrong   It's like you've never seen the sunshine   When a gray sky comes along   You're just down inside yourself"      And the middle-aged man, he'd heard some, you know   But he had some questions   And he was just about to speak   When he was interrupted again      "Well never mind the questions now   You don't have to be so wise   Hey, your problem ain't philosophy   So get it down to size   Right now it's phisiological   In a logical disguise   You're just down inside yourself      But the blues is not your final judgement   It's no deep or evil power   Hey the cure is very simple   And it works in half an hour   Get some sleep, eat some broccoli   Run a mile, take a shower   You're just down inside yourself   You're just down inside yourself"