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)

Take me down I'm feeling now And if I move on I admit you're gone And I ain't ready and I'll hold steady Yeah, I'll hold you in my arms, in my arms, in my arms And you're locked inside my heart And your melody's an art And I won't let the terror in I'm stealing time through the eye of the needle Step and repeat Tears fall to the beat Smile through the pain Feel the acid rain And I ain't ready but I'll hold steady Yeah, I'll hold you in my arms, in my arms, in my arms And you're locked inside my heart And your melody's an art And I won't let the terror in I'm stealing time through the eye of the needle My bag's heavy, been filled by me They weigh me down, carry them 'round It's all mine, all mine I am blinded by the eye of the needle And you're locked inside my heart And your melody's an art And I won't let the terror in I'm stealing time through the eye of the needle Eye of the needle, oh Oh-oh You're locked inside my heart And your melody's an art And I won't let the terror in I'm stealing time through the eye of the needle Oh-oh Oh-oh

I caught you knockin' at my cellar door I love you, baby, can I have some more? Ooh, ooh, the damage done I hit the city and I lost my band I watched the needle take another man Gone, gone, the damage done I sing the song because I love the man I know that some of you don't understand Milk blood to keep from running out I've seen the needle and the damage done A little part of it in everyone But every junkie's like a settin' sun

There's a cold wind out tonight The chill of distant eyes An orbit survey finds... your mind I will remember You will remember The star that came tonight... There's a thought that fills your mind A vision of time When knowledge was confined And then we wonder how machines Can steal each other's dreams From points that are unseen... It's real I will remember You will remember The star that came tonight When you gaze at the evening sky And you're reaching out with your mind You might see the nation's eyes Don't hide... It's you I will remember You will remember The star that came tonight Oh can't you see the light Of the knowing star

Kill her. That's all you have to do Kill Mary? She's a risk, and get the priest as well (10 p.m.) I feel the rain coming down My face feels the wet, my mind the storm Flashing lights as people race to find shelter from the pour Moving silent through the streets, they're mine, they're mine Midnite, she sings praises in the hall To saintly faces hallowed be their names she can't recall Sister Mary, virgin Mary, silent with her sin (what are you doing out in the rain?) She feels me, I can taste her breath when she speaks (I've been waiting for you. Come in) Mary, Mary just a whore for the underground (They made you pay in guilt for your salvation) Thought you had them fooled, now they've sent me for you You know too much for your own good Don't offer me faith, I've got all I need here (My faith is growing, growing tight against the seam) What we need is trust to keep us both alive Help us make it through the night I've no more want of any faith Binds my arm and feed my mind The only peace I've ever known I'll close my eyes, you shoot No Mary, listen, you've got to pull your strength (From my lips I pray I feed you well) Your precious cross is gone, it made me wait so long For what you gave to everyone The priest is cold and dead, on his knees he fed (From my barrel of death, he turned) The Holy water red as he died he said Thank you, I just watched him bleed I feel the flow, the blessed stain Sweating hands like fire and flames Burn my thighs, spread in sacrificial rite The hallowed altar burns my flesh Once more tonight Mary, my lady of pain, always alone Blind, you search for the truth I see myself in you, parallel lives Winding at light-speed through time No time to rest yet, we've got to stop his game (Before madness has the final laugh) Too much bloodshed, we're being used and fed Like rats in experiments No final outcome here, only pain and fear (It's followed us both all our lives) There's one thing left to see, will it be him or me? There's one more candle left to light Don't turn your back on my disgrace The blood of Christ can't heal my wounds so deep The sins of man are all I taste Can't spit the memory from my mind I can't cry anymore Mary, my lady of pain, always alone Blind, you search for the truth I see myself in you, parallel lives Winding at light-speed through time You're mine