Needle In the Dark

With progress comes problems With wisdom comes age With lessons come learning And pleasure comes with pain You can only have the sunshine After the rain I took a walk It got me thinking Left foot, right foot Smiling, blinking Breathe out, breathe in Somehow linking My soul to my mind and my heart to my mouth Lost and the found and the north to the south And the corners to the circle in my mind We may find that the gate has been locked When we come back down to what we really are Retrace the footprints off the path that is lost It's like trying to find a needle in the dark My hands they are empty But they are clean I'm poor but I'm healthy I'm halfway between The gutter and the skyline So I took a walk To the land's end Thinking 'bout an ex-girlfriend that I had And the pages that I've turned And it seems to me That we all love the chase But once we're caught we feel encased Behind bars of love and trust uprooted By drunken lust by People, people just like us Yeah, people, people just like us You may find that the gate has been locked When we come back down to what we really are (yeah) Retrace the footprints off the path that's been lost It's like trying to find a needle in the dark So I took a walk to the station Lost in my imagination Having private conversations with myself And I'm just stumbling 'round And I wait for the sound Of this crumbling town to come tumbling down People say I'm just bummin' around But I've had both my ears to the ground (To the ground, to the ground To the ground, to the ground To the ground, oh-yeah To the ground, to the ground To the ground, to the ground, ooh To the ground, to the ground)