Getting Closer - Alternate Version

I went searching for the truth
 But in my innocence I found
 All the con men and their acrobats
 Who stomped me in the ground
 If I count up their percentages
 I know they're getting rich
 But they haven't taken everything
 Those paybacks are a bitch
 Though I've lost quite a lot
 I am still in control
 They can keep what they've got
 But they can't have my soul
 And if I don't have this all worked out
 Still I'm getting closer, getting closer
 I still have far to go no doubt
 But I'm getting closer, getting closer
 What was ripped off by professionals
 Is not all that it seems
 While I must live up to contracts
 I did not give up my dreams
 If I see it as experience
 It hasn't gone to waste
 Lately all the missing pieces
 Have been falling into place
 And if I could go back and start over somehow
 I would not change that much
 Knowing what I know now
 Thought there have been sins
 I will regret
 Still I'm getting close, getting closer
 I don't have all the answers yet
 But I'm getting closer, getting closer
 I'm a mark for every shyster
 From Topanga to Berlin
 And I should have learned to kick them out
 As soon as they crawled in
 So to every bank in Switzerland
 That stores my stolen youth
 I'm alright because despite the laws
 You cannot hide the truth
 And although you will say
 I am still too naive
 But I have not lost faith
 In the things I believe
 And if I don't have a this all worked out
 Still I'm getting closer, getting closer
 I still have far to go no doubt
 But I'm still getting closer, getting closer