I don't know why, I feel like I do Rats in my head, stones in my shoes I can't explain the way that I feel It hovers like a ghost inside of me and I know it's real I don't know why, I don't know why I don't know why, I don't know why ♪ Slum education, tenement kid ♪ He knew the score, kept it well hid Mother was damaged, father was too Handed down the generations, inheritance blues I don't know why, I don't know why I don't know why, I don't know why ♪ Something is broken, always unspoken Please, cut me open, let me have this Something is broken, always unspoken Please, cut me open, let me have this I don't know why it makes me sense things Grabbed like a memory with a broken wind I don't know why it makes me sense things Grabbed like a memory with a broken wind I don't know why, I don't know why, I don't know why ♪ I don't know why, I don't know why I don't know why, I don't know why Some find it easy to find their way home ♪ Some always troubled in some kind of storm Some always wounded, injured and wronged Crying and screaming from coast to coast closed like a fist I don't know why, I don't know why I don't know why, I don't know why