I wish I was strong enough To lift not one, but both of us. Some day I will be strong enough To lift not one, but both of us. Ever thought about losing it When your money's all gone and you lose your whip You might lose your grip when the land lord tell you That you're due for rent And the grass so green on the other side Make a kid wanna run straight through the fence Open up the fridge bout twenty times But you still can't find no food in it That's foolishness Sometimes I wonder Why we care so much Bout the way we look And the way we talk And the way we act And the clothes we bought How much that cost But does it really even matter Cause if life is an up hill battle We all trying to climb with the same old ladder In the same boat with the same old paddle Why so shallow I'm just asking What's the pattern To the madness Cause everybody ain't a number one draft pick Most of us ain't hollywood actors But if it's all for one and one for all Then maybe one day we all can ball Do it one time for the underdogs Sincerly yours from one of ya'll I wish I was strong enough To lift not one, but both of us Someday I will be strong enough To lift not one, but both of us I can feel your pain I can be your anchor And I try so hard to be strong enough for you But the world gets heavy when you're lifting for two I swore it'd be alright I still promise it is And I just kept talking Until people started listening The problem with that is people started believing Now everybody needs an answer Everybody wants a reason Now there's hundreds of stories And there's thousands of letters And I wanna tell them all that's it's gonna get better And the nightmare that I can't seem to shake in my head Is that I'll lose you in the static of the calls coming in What if it was just us I wonder sometimes You know that it kills me when I can't reply If we were only alone in our own little place I had this crazy idea Maybe we could run away Maybe just today Maybe you and me Maybe we could build a world that no body else sees I can be the king And you could be the queen And it would never get late So we'd never have to leave And everytime it got cold I'd be the blanlet you need You could lay there forever On my shoulder while you sleep But that's not real life It's a distant dream And we're still wide awake Maybe someday I wish I was strong enough To lift not one, but both of us Someday I will be strong enough To lift not one, but both of us