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

People, people just like us.

You 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'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.