the big man ain't so big no more   he's curled up on the basement floor   his worldly goods around his feet   he's lost his mind trying to keep   the more you gain, the more you pray   nobody comes to take it all away      but you're up there and I'm down here   with just the stairs between our fears   and walls made of foolish pride   don't let me hide      once I walked a troubled road   crusading for a ransom owed   but any source of real joy contains    an initiation of pain   the more you build, the more you stay   behind to tend what you have made      but you're up there and I'm down here   with just the stairs between our tears   and walls we can't see behind   don't let me hide       the more you live, the more you're sure   some things are worth losing for      but you're up there and I'm down here   with just the stairs between our fears   and walls we can live inside   don't let me hide