Seen the world It's crumbling all around me A place to go Where I felt safe In search of help I fell down on my knees I pray to lord Please keep my way Doors open I've never know When I ask faith He'll show me which way to go Chorus: When the road gets rough I've got to stand Or else I'll fall In God's creation I know where I stand Temptation sings Its songs are loud and clear But I won't let my feet stray from this path Not even for all my heart I know, I know, I know my mission Is to walk as light as I can To keep you looking up When I'm feeling down Keep my feet on the ground Take it step by step and He'll show me which way to go My age combines wisdom Nor sliver of gold Chorus: When the road gets rough I've got to stand Or else I'll fall In God's creation I know where I stand He'll show me which way to go My age combines wisdom Nor sliver of gold When the road gets rough I've got to stand Or else I'll fall In God's creation I know where my salvation lies I know, I know, I know In God's creation I know, I know, I know, I know, I know There are some things That I may not know Sometimes the hills are hard Are hard to climb But I know, I know, I know Someone who has the plan Chorus: When the road gets rough I've got to stand Or else I'll fall In God's creation I know where I stand

I stopped by to look around For things I left behind With the years we spent together There's no telling what I'll find Its not the keys or the records It's the love I'm looking for 'Cause the last time that I had it I was walking out your door And I came by to get some things I used to call my own I didn't think that I'd need them When I started out alone It's not the books or the records But my heart I'm looking for 'Cause the last time that I felt it I was walking out your door But I don't know where to start Looking for the lonely heart Oh I could tear this place apart if you won't mind it On a shelf behind the book In the closet on a hook If you'd only help me look I know I'll find it I stopped in to tell you That there isn't any doubt That the things I left here with you Are the things I can't live without You can keep all that I have ever owned It's the love I'm looking for 'Cause the the last time I felt it I was walking out your door But I don't know where to start Looking for the lonely heart Oh I could tear this place apart if you won't mind it Is it on a shelf behind the book On a closet on the hook If you'd only help me look, I know we'll find it

I hold the fire here in my hands From where I stand, it's got no meaning And when I'm falling, how will I know? 'Cause I can't let go, that same old feeling The silver glowing as you're dancing here with me Not far behind, I hear the world above calling out If I was someone, would you let the moment pass? A flash of sunlight catches on the glass that cuts my eye My hands are shaking as you're dissecting me I feel the moment and the tension feeds my appetite The truth is changing as I'm underneath the dark sky We're taking chances, moving to a place that's deep inside The silver glowing as you're dancing here with me Not far behind, I hear the world above calling out If I was someone, would you let the moment pass? A flash of sunlight catches on the glass that cuts my eye My hands are shaking as you're dissecting me I feel the moment and the tension feeds my appetite The truth is changing as I'm underneath the dark sky We're taking chances, moving to a place that's deep inside I shake the moment from where it lasts I take your hand, it gives new meaning The night is calling and far below The waterfall, that's such a feeling The silver glowing as you're dancing here with me Not far behind, I hear the world above calling out If I was someone, would you let the moment pass? A flash of sunlight catches on the glass that cuts my eye My hands are shaking as you're dissecting me I feel the moment and the tension feeds my appetite The truth is changing as I'm underneath the dark sky We're taking chances, moving to a place that's deep inside The silver glowing as you're dancing here with me Not far behind, I hear the world above calling out If I was someone, would you let the moment pass? A flash of sunlight catches on the glass that cuts my eye My hands are shaking as you're dissecting me I feel the moment and the tension feeds my appetite The truth is changing as I'm underneath the dark sky We're taking chances, moving to a place that's deep inside And when we get here, how will we know? How will we know? How will we know? And when we get here, how will we know? How will we know? How will we know?

Why do the birds sing so early in the dawn? Their honeysuckle melodies, before my day's alarm I imagine they're rehearsing for some big, elaborate show That I've not been invited to, so I should never know The songs they like to sing, I suppose they're not too far From all the songs I sing, when I'm alone late in my car (when I'm alone late in my car) And if I were the postman awake for the afternoon I'd be the lucky someone eavesdropping on their tunes But I think I like it better when I sleep late past their call For all I know, perhaps the birds don't even sing at all We are nothing Love comes easily to you But not the hurt You're impervious to blue I wish I knew How to sing about the other colors too

Jumped and took a fall Expected I would fly I didn't know that wings Were made of wax and wires But I forgive the sun For burning like it's June 'Cause bones can always mend But there's only one of you You're gravity to me You keep me in my place And without your pull I'd just be lost in space I'm tethered to your heart Oh, any distance wide When whispering your words I hear them amplified And I'm out here on a limb In this vacuum of two So believe when I say That my eyes see only you You're gravity to me You keep me in my place And without your pull I'd just be lost in space

I'm traveling in some vehicle I'm sitting in some cafe A defector from the petty wars That shell shock love away There's comfort in melancholy When there's no need to explain It's just as natural as the weather In this moody sky today In our possessive coupling So much could not be expressed So now i'm returning to myself These things that you and i suppressed I see something of myself in everyone Just at this moment of the world As snow gathers like bolts of lace Waltzing on a ballroom girl You know it never has been easy Whether you do or you do not resign Whether you travel the breadth of extremities Or stick to some straighter line Now here's a man and a woman sitting on a rock They're either going to thaw out or freeze Listen... Strains of benny goodman Coming thru' the snow and the pinewood trees I'm porous with travel fever But you know i'm so glad to be on my own Still somehow the slightest touch of a stranger Can set up trembling in my bones I know - no one's going to show me everything We all come and go unknown Each so deep and superficial Between the forceps and the stone Well i looked at the granite markers Those tribute to finality - to eternity And then i looked at myself here Chicken scratching for my immortality In the church they light the candles And the wax rolls down like tears There's the hope and the hopelessness I've witnessed thirty years We're only particles of change i know, i know Orbiting around the sun But how can i have that point of view When i'm always bound and tied to someone White flags of winter chimneys Waving truce against the moon In the mirrors of a modern bank >from the window of a hotel room I'm traveling in some vehicle I'm sitting in some cafe A defector from the petty wars Until love sucks me back that way