We don't need any more mountains
Because the trail builders failed
To give us passage there
So we can't reach the sky

We don't need any more failure
There is human tragedy
That's written everywhere
We are all too young to die

Like a mystery that's here to stay
Some people never go away
'Cause they've got something to say

Don't sell me short!
You've been wrong too long
Don't brush me off!
Just because I don't belong
Like it or not I'm all you've got,
Dispose when I'm shot
Just don't sell me short,
I might not be who you thought

We don't need any more fables
Because the writers have passed
And left us lessonless
We must find our own way

We don't need any more privilege
There is vivid desperation
That is powerless
That no surplus can repay

Like the fix of rapture in a trance
Oh, fates are sealed by circumstance
So you've got to take a chance

Don't sell me short!
You've been wrong too long
Don't brush me off!
Just because I don't belong
Pass me on by, ignore my cry;
Forget me when I die
Just don't sell me short,
Not while I'm still alive

Everybody's talking about heaven on earth,
I'm still trying to figure out
Just what I'm worth
I'm full of emotion
And stuff you can't contain
You just want to
Flush me down the drain
But you can't make me go away!

Don't sell me short!
You've been wrong too long
Don't brush me off!
Just because I don't belong
Like it or not I'm all you've got,
Dispose when I'm shot
Just don't sell me short,
I might not be who you thought

You've been wrong too long
Don't brush me off!
Just because I don't belong
Pass me on by,
And forget me when I die
Just don't sell me short,
Not while I'm still alive