You can try hard work, you can try making money You can try to make success You can try strong drink, take to acting funny Or try some liberated sex Try overeating, get a new job Have another baby Maybe you're an artist, lead a revolution Take up yoga or just go crazy Trancendental meditation, try a new diet, Go to discos, start again. Try religion, write a novel. Buy some makeup, take up jogging Or just blame it all on the men... What I'm trying to say Is you gotta be strong Cos nothing takes the pain away For long I don't want to go under Under the doctor Under under under under under And when it gets real heavy, and you start getting stroppy They'll deal you out some mighty fine dope Librium, Mogodon, Thorazine, Valium They haven't got a pill called Hope Thousands of us women have been cut down by lobotomy Terrorized by ECT Bullied into passivity, seduced into servility I'm talking about you and me What I'm trying to say Is you gotta be strong Cos nothing takes the pain away For long And I don't want to go under Under the doctor Under under under under under