"The world will beat you to your knees

Put him over your knee and beat some manners into him.

Put him over your knee and beat some manners into him.

Never too old to put you over my knee and beat a reckoning into you.

And I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it.

It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it'll beat you to your knees and keep it there permanently if you let it.