Prove me wrong, drummer man
Show me where you hide music in the sand
Of countless years of heartbreak
How can you make music with such a heartache
Break your drum kit, drummer man
Show me that you really can
Survive without the music by your side
There's no way to live unless you are alive
Throw away the snare, drummer man
See if you can wake up with such a bland
Morning at your disposal
If you can even get a word to come through, buccal
Show me you're right, drummer man
Did you ever find your music in the sand?
Are you afraid?
Of what I can say?
Look me in the eyes, drummer man
Do what you say a drummer can
Can you run from your fears?
Without tripping over all of your tears?
Hit your bass drum, drummer man
Give us a rumble only a drummer can
Show how you make us quake
Show us how you do not shake
Can you do it drummer man?
Can you do what a drummer can?
Work through ache and pain and fear?
Even when the solo is near?
Break a cymbal, drummer man
Prove that you are our drummer man
Are you really really human
Or should we go on moving
Are you still alive, drummer man?
Are you doing what a drummer can?
Did you make it through the torments of your mind?
Are you still stuck in the sands of time?
Start the set, drummer man
Do what only a drummer can
Lead the way, excite the crowd!
Wear a broken drummer crown
Keep on running, drummer man
Give us some proof that your mind walks on land
Does it run with us, like a horse down a path
Does it feel the pain, feel the seeping wrath
Break it down, drummer man,
Do you really know if you can?
Keep up the tempo, keeping it from dropping
They are losing their interest, it seems you are flopping
It is saddening, drummer man
We all thought you could do what a drummer can
You can be strong and fierce! But humble
All your sound has reduced to a mumble
The run and go, drummer man
It seems you should take it, runner man
Run and don't stop, even if you hit a tree
It's not like you have room in your cell for three
Keep your distance, drummer man
We all know there is nothing you can
Do, you have proved us all right
You are nothing but a sad story at the end of the night
Prove me wrong, drummer man
Do what you say a drummer can
