[Verse 1]
Three thousand miles of wilderness, overcome by the flow
A lonely restitution of pavement, pomp and show
I seek a thousand answers, I find but one or two
I maintain no discomfiture, my path again renewed

[Chorus]
Against the grain
That's where I'll stay
Swimming upstream
I maintain against the grain

[Verse 2]
Here labeled as lunatic, sequestered and content
There ignored and defeated by the government
There's an oriented public whose magnetic force does pull
But away from the potential of the individual

[Chorus]
Against the grain
That's where I'll stay
Swimming upstream
I maintain against the grain

[Verse 3]
The flow is getting stronger with smaller increments of time
And eddies of new ideas are increasingly hard to find
You need all that the other has, it's your right to seize the day
But in all your acquisitions you will soon be swept away
[Chorus]
Against the grain
That's where I'll stay
Swimming upstream
I maintain against the grain

[Verse 4]
There's a common consensus and an uncomfortable cheer
A reverberating chorus that anyone can hear
It sings, "leave your cares behind you, just grab tenaciously"
This lulling sense or purpose will destroy us rapidly

[Chorus]
Against the grain
That's where I'll stay
Swimming upstream
I maintain against the grain

[Outro]
Against the grain
Against the grain
Against the grain