In the time I've got to go
With the choices I have left
I may be poorly but I'm the captain of my soul
I walk this world with no regrets

But if I'm gonna fall
I'll fall on higher ground
And if I'm gonna lose
I'll go down swinging
In the closing moments
The defining round
You are all gonna see
The fight left in me

I know better than to care
And I care enough to know
That if they have their way
they will strip your spirit bare
That's not the way I plan to go

But if I'm gonna fall
I'll fall on higher ground
And if I'm gonna lose
I'll go down swinging
In the closing moments
The defining round
You are all gonna see

There is no common ground
There is no foreign soil
Give a man water and he'll do his best to drown
Runs out of water give him oil

But if I'm gonna fall
I'll fall on higher ground
And if I'm gonna lose
I'll go down swinging
In the closing moments
The defining round
You are all gonna see
But if I'm gonna fall
I'll fall on higher ground
And if I'm gonna lose
I'll go down singing
When I'm bruised and battered
And I've gone to ground
You are all gonna see
The fight left in me