The Gathering Field - Middle Road lyrics

Take the darkest of the darkest nights

Combine it with the brightest of the sun's bright rays

And you'll see what I see in my head

What I see every day

From the pit of despair

To the arch of euphoric transcendence

I'm the middle man monkey, the misery junkie

The cat walking barbed wire fences

I've been searching high and low

Up and down and carrying my heavy load

High and low and up and down and all around

Been trying to find the middle road

I been trying to find it

Whenever God shines his light

I put on my best sunglasses

Whatever truth that shines through, for a moment I view

But of course then the moment it passes

And I'm standing alone again

At the crossroads of my melodrama

With my heart in my hand, dumb and silent I stand

Like some dime store Dalai Lama

I been searching high and low...

Angel, devil, it's all the same

Each one knows me by name

Each one knows me, they all know me by name

Come the morning of my soul's dark night

When I've laid to rest these ghosts that haunt me

With sweet tenderness I will kiss your red lips

Not the past or the future shall daunt me

But that day ain't here just yet

So I'm stuck here on this roller coaster

With my hands in the air, on a wing and a prayer

Hoping it's taking me closer

I been searching high and low...