When I was a boy I wanted to be a man Ran ahead before I could ever truly understand Want and need What should and what could be And the cost of what was incomplete You gotta know this Don'tcha know what I mean You can't get around the inside the fundamental need To try You are whom you've got to fight To be complete To be To be a human being To be a human being To be a human being Now that I am old what is man but a breath Shuttered at the soul and holding on to what is left Or did what could be Find it's way inside beyond the fight to be complete You gotta know this Don'tcha know what I mean You can't get around the inside the fundamental need To try You are whom you've got to fight To be complete To be To be a human being If one day you hear the news And you're wondering if it's all true Rest assured that I am worse than anything that you have heard You can't get around the inside the fundamental need To try You are whom you've got to fight To be complete To be To be a human being To be To be a human being You gotta know this Don'tcha know what I mean