Upright Lyrics - Pain

The argonauts always intrigued me, 

They typified every man: 

Happy unless something popped up 

That wasn't part of the plan 

But there'd been no pretension of plans from the start, 

So why did they go? Were they stupid and slow? 

They were so cocky and sure at the start of the show... 

But when the sails hung flat & the Argo just sat, 

Or the rocks came crashin' or the water ran low, 

When Hercules split, & Jason admitted that he didn't know where to go, he said: 

You can whine until your mouth dries up, 

You can hang your head and wonder why, 

You can die, or you can stand upright 

And never go down again 

Sisyphus always intrigued me, he never decided to stop; 

The point of it lay in the trying and not in attaining the top 

Granted, he didn't have much of a choice, 

But neither do you & neither do I, And neither did you & neither do I 

And even Mr Moneybags on the hill has never stopped pushin' and he never quite will 

We're not just here to see how hard we try 

But the way we try & it ain't no lie 

You can whine until your mouth dries up, 

You can hang your head and wonder why, 

You can die, or you can stand upright and never go down again 

So I'm makin' up songs in my head 

To the cadence of seams in the road; 

Most of 'em suck, it kills time, though: 

We've got a freakin' long way to go 

But our hearts are strong & our minds intact 

And we're never gonna stop, & that's a big, fat fact 

A little cream in my coffee & a good CD, 

Makin' everybody sing along with me: 

You can whine until your mouth dries up, 

You can hang your head and wonder why, 

You can die, or you can stand upright and never go down again 

And never go down again.