Seth Jacobsen - The Bottom Lyrics

Oh no

I'm broke
Said I don't got no money, money, money
I-I-I-I can't pay
You think I'm being funny, funny, funny
Na-na-na, no way
I never thought I'd be in this deep
My situation's gotta change
So low I'd even take a handout
I'm praying for the better times

I may have nothing
But I know it's coming and it'll be something Something greater
So much greater than I could fantasize
Say what you wanna
Regardless I'm gonna shine bright like the sun
And everyone that's in the world is gonna realize
I don't when it's gonna happen
But it's gonna happen and whenever it does
You will not believe your eyes
Until that time has come
I'll be living the bottom life

Ain't nobody helping me
I dream about the top every night
It's brought me to my knees
I won't quit the fight (no I won't)
I'm looking up
'Cause I know that's where I belong (hoo)
So sick and tired of (of)
Of living at the bottom

Never saying never
I was made for better
I can do whatever I set my mind to doing
And don't you dare forget
All you're good for is dismaying and naysaying
You can run me down, but I am never gonna fret
You said what I do with my life
You don't even care
But you really seem to have a problem
With me climbing up from the bottom

Clearly you hate me the way berate me
And keep deprecating me like Satan
Castigating me down and up
You call me your brother, but that's just a cover
Your goal is to smother my endeavor wishing
I would just give up
The venom you're spewing will not be my ruin
I'll simply infuse it in my music and the public's gonna eat it up
You jealous haters need to realize that
Greatness doesn't ever waver

I don't ever quit
My body will break
But my soul was built to last forever
I was born for this
So I'd rather die
Than to be denied my raison d'être
Fervently I pray that I make a break
Day and night I'm writing and singing
Overanalyzing and overthinking
And still your hope is that I wind up
Scraping at the bottom

Ain't nobody helping me (nobody's helping me no)
I dream about the top every night
It's brought me to my knees (to my knees)
I won't quit the fight (I won't)
I'm looking up (I'm looking up)
'Cause I know that's where I belong (I belong)
So sick and tired of (of)
Of living at the bottom

Whoo-hoo
I'm living at the bottom
Ooh
Listen

I really am sick and tired of the bottom
But it needed to be in my life
Pressing toward the mark
For the prize of the high calling
It made me tough and an achiever
I've been educated
My enemies made sure (sure)
You'd best believe I've got 'em
Cause I've been living at the bottom

Ain't nobody helping me (yeah, I)
I dream about the top every night
It's brought me to my knees (it's brought me to my knees)
I won't quit the fight (I won't)
I'm looking up (whoo-hoo)
'Cause I know that's where I belong (the top's where I belong)
So sick and tired of (so sick of)
Of living at the bottom

Ooh-yeah
I'm from the bottom
Yeah-ooh
All of the struggles and troubles
Of humble beginnings
Aren't meant for demeaning
But rather for teaching anyone what they should know about the world
School of living at the bottom

I'm Seth Jacobsen