Why you build me up  Just to tear me down  Like a little used soul  Pitches straight to the ground  In this game  There's something I strive to be yet  I always fall in my shame    If you allow it in  Then the trip never ends  And what really could have been   In this life  There's something I've tried to be yet  It's fallen right out of reach    So you picked me up  On my feet again  And then again I'm the man I am  So you picked me up   On my feet again  Lost inside is the man I am    Time and lines again  I've tried so hard to be a man  Yet the pride slips through my hands    [Chorus]