The tightrope cuts my life in two
What is old and what is new
Which is live and which is dead
Your predictable answers fill my head

Finite days and infinite nights
Go by like the rolling of the tides
Did I see or immagine what I know?
Truth and lies mingle in the place my heart resides

Your eyes burn lines across my body
Please don't loath what I became
Don't hate me for caring what you think more than most
Deep down I know you're the same

If determination was the key
Then for me
There'd never have been a door
If despiration was the fee
And not for free
I'd bankrupt but wanting more

Live the life you've always dreamed
Say the things you wish you mean
Be interested but don't look keen

Don't loose sight of where you are
Day by day from star to star
Keep singing, play your black guitar

Mop up your mistakes
With the rags from your past
Don't defy your fears
Because they never last

There's a depth inside your eyes I just can see past
I'm old enough to know I'll be older when I do
No point in straining your ears to hear the silence