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
  
  (Chorus)
  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
  
  (Chorus)
  
  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...)