I'll be here a while, ain't going nowhere   I'll be here a while, ain't going nowhere   I'll be here a while, ain't going nowhere   I'll be here a while      Far is solace in the maddening pace   Sad state written on my face      Not a tight rope walk but dance   Uncertain game of chance   But I'll see it through in time      I'll be here a while, ain't going nowhere   I'll be here a while, ain't going nowhere   I'll be here a while, ain't going nowhere   I'll be here a while      And if a person, place or thing can deliver   I would quiver with delight   Tempted by the hand that could   Blind my vision and sight      But at twenty years of age   In frolic and in rage   I will see it through in time      I'll be here a while, ain't going nowhere   I'll be here a while, ain't going nowhere   I'll be here a while, ain't going nowhere   I'll be here a while      But the dawn has come into the endless night   And everything's gonna be all right      But at thirty years of age   Through frolic and in rage   All regressed and healed in time      "I'll be here a while ain't going nowhere"   Said I, said I, said I   "I will survive"