David Bromberg Strongest Man Alive lyrics

I am the strongest man alive!
That might sound like idle boasting, but I have no need to lie;
I have lived through storms and tempests not another soul survived;
I am the strongest man alive!

I have carried burdens heavier than human tongue can tell,
I've travelled distances untold, been forth and back through hell;
I've endured the very worst that man and nature could provide,
I am the strongest man alive!

I have fought in many battles, though I have not won them all;
it's a miracle this bruised and battered body breathes at all!
Oh they say a cat has nine lives, well I've lived through four or five –
I am the strongest man alive!

I have cheated death a thousand times, that foul and greedy thief;

but I've buried many comrades, which has brought me endless grief.
I alone live on while all around my friends and loved ones die;
I am the strongest man alive!

It's the mental anguish that's the worst of all the pain I've had –
where other men have gone insane, I'm only slightly mad!
And still I bleed, I breathe, I weep through times I've wished to die;
I am the strongest man alive!

Although I am earth's strongest man, I'm not immune to death;
there's a motive for each motion, a purpose for each breath,
for without your true and lasting love, I would not – could not – survive;
although, I am the strongest man alive!