I did not understand
The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao
I did not understand then
But I understand now

I thought I understood
Thou shalt not ****
But your tongue is driving me from God  
Have you sinned against his will?

I do not understand
The love of life eternal destroys life temporal
In this life we sin to save ourselves
Yet the lamb rose from human betrayal

I will never understand
The weakness of the human mind
A wall of fear surrounding what God made infinite
Made of stone to judge mankind

I want to understand
So I walk alone searching the desert sand slowly
Is it obedience to man I will find
Or the burning conscience of what is holy?

There's no escape
Except inside your dreams
You imagine me there
Invite me over sometime

See you smile
How you see me
Yes that's what I need
A belief to try

Let me try
Let me try
I do want to know
How it is you love me

Go ahead ask
I tell you I was thinking
About waterfalls
And loving you there

You are beautiful
Yes let me try
To make you feel that way
The way you you feel to me

Let me try
Let me try
Running away in dreams
That you made for me

I heard thunder outside
I was thinking lightening in the drain
The sound cleared things up
Like a new set of guitar strings

I always wanted to see a piano shatter
It's better just to learn how to play it
That's how you make light in a hole
The power of creation finds new things

Don't make the insects mad
Oh yeah they're listening to you
Karma has ears everywhere
Crawling from holes wearing ghost wings

Sell the stage to the first punk you see
He won't pay you but that's the point
Let him entertain you before he's evicted
He shows us how to walk the night like Kings

What am I gonna do about peace of mind
It seems a simple girl is not what I can find
It's so obvious what life should be about
But I make it hard like a restless dreamer

I can't take it easy with stones so high
I pile them up to climb my own mountains
You know it seems like a good idea at the time
But time tells me again how much I miss her

Being an outlaw pushes a lot of people away
I could live a life on my own desert plain
They write songs about it but there's no love
I'm coming back to see if she's a forgiver

I want less input into my own signature
Somethings not right when freedom shrugs
It's gotta' be somebody who knows how it is
Echoing sand is not what I want to remember

If you
If you would
Listen to me
Then I
Then I would say
It’s you that I see
But I want
I want to hear you say
You want the same things as me
I was
I was not right
The first time
The first time we tried
I held you tight
Then I ran
I ran into the night
And you said
I didn’t want the same things as you
I thought
I thought it was you
And it was
And it was true
But then
But then you flew
And I
And I saw a light
But a shadow proved we were never right

She likes to go out of her way now
But her heart is still a back-seat driver
She keeps saying I’m the one driving here
You be quiet, I’m the one who’ll steer

I can’t get her to take a rose from my hand
She used to love someone else without any flowers
Now I have to make a promise before a kiss
She’s afraid of the feeling she’s gonna’ miss

Takin’ the long way around love
Takin’ the long way around love
She’d rather climb a tree and pretend
Than stand on the ground and love again

I want to sit by a river with a friend
Forgetting about hard times
Thinking about what’s to come
We used to be excited about a mystery
Now we want to know how the story will end

Takin’ the long way around love
Takin’ the long way around love
She’d rather close the curtains at night
Than let me love her under the moonlight

Take me home Lord or please leave me be
It's hard enough alone why can't you see?
You gave me time to live and time to be free
So let me suffer my own way so I can be me

Say something Lord so we know you're there
I don't need miracles just a sign that you care
My friends are crying from sorrow and despair
Help us as we wait on a horn blowing in the air

Take me or leave me
Bless me or reject me
Which one will it be
Tell me now Lord
Is it flesh or a soul you see?

Believing was hard even for a disciple
Their nets were full and loaves were plentiful
But they were afraid and could not be faithful
Forgive me for my weak heart is always sinful

I won't make promises anymore I can't keep
The last one I broke made someone weep
I pray now to the one who washed John's feet
And drink the wine and bread he served to eat

Take me or leave me
Doubt me or believe me
Which one will it be
Tell me now Lord
When will decide about me?