Welcome to my little world... completely self contained, yeah

Your problems they will soon be gone (we soak up lots of pain), yeah

If life is a reflecting pool then we are like a sponge, yeah

Absorbing the good with the bad we soak up... soak it up

So give me all your troubled thoughts

And baggage you can't handle, no

We'll gladly take it off your back (we soak up lots of pain), yeah

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Is it any wonder now everybody goes insane

Everybody locks the door to keep out any strangers

Everybody's all pent up everybody's got short fuse

Getting ready to blow up, we live in so much danger

Boys and girls in a line Come and get your big reward

Your're not too late Just in time

Put your hand on mine you're mine you're mine

When everybody has gone to bed and children are asleep, yeah

I sit up late and watch t.v. (and soak up lots of pain), yeah

Little junior on the bus his notebook by his side, yeah

He hardly ever makes a fuss he soaks up so much pain

We've traveled far this monkey and me by airplane boat and train, yeah

We're here to eat up all your sins (and soak up all your pain), yeah

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Boys and girls of every creed religion and persuasion, nooo

It's time to get up off your knees... we soak up... soak it up

So open the door and let me in don't question who I am, no

Just shake my hand and give me your name (we soak up... soak it up...)