the kingdom is within you

When the foreman came, he helped me understand That my destiny was mortar in the Almighty's hand Then they shipped my ass and they worked me place to place Then delivered me in the combines as a ward of the state Come to find me I'm here today but don't belong I'm workin' 'til the debt is gone The upside of it The upside of it But in a most familiar way I'm beggin' you to understand I try to be a decent man The upside of it The upside of it Night work shattered me with overtime and they fined me White kids say they sympathize But they're afraid to look me in the eyes Up, up, up, up, up in the sky some place I got treasures up in heaven and the state just takes the rest I been workin' at the sawmill down in Kinleith for sometime I gonna save for my own furniture and kitchen down the line But they make it hard to pay for things outside of cigarettes It's just jobs we're in, well, alright then, and amen Come to find me I'm here today but don't belong I'm workin' 'til the debt is gone The upside of it The upside of it And in a most familiar way I'm beggin' you to understand I try to be a decent man The upside of it The upside of it In the unrelieved serenity back home I wonder how they talk of me Do I send the card with mountains on? Or the one with all the riot police? I don't open doors for the uniform Skulkin' shadows that break in at the dawn time To haul us away Do you know how it feels? I can recite every libel and terrible thing I get 'Cause I built this place Alrighty I'm here until I don't belong I'm workin' 'til the debt is gone The upside of it The upside of it And in a most familiar way I'm beggin' you to understand I try to be a decent man The upside of it The upside of it The upside of it The upside of it