I was brought up to believe The universe has a plan All is for the best Believe in what we're told Until our final breath The joy and pain that we receive We are only human It's not ours to understand Some will be rewarded

And the sound of distant thunder. The tall weeds lay flat down On the hard flat Kansas ground. And a sad song in her head, Kept blowin' round. She barely even knew his name,

And the darkness turned to pain And never went away Until all that remained Was buried deep beneath the surface Until one day I stopped caring And began to forget why I longed to be so close And I disappeared into the darkness Is there ever really a

Caught in a Web Hanging on by a thread Removed from the world Spinning the lies devised in my head I bare all that I am made of now Does this voice the wounds of your soul? You can't heal the wounds of my soul.

Is the only reason you're holding me tonight 'Cause we're scared to be lonely? Is it just our bodies? Are we both losing our minds? Scared to be lonely Magnifying all our flaws And I wonder why, wonder what for Do we need somebody just to feel like we're

It's getting old The bad news Why turn on my TV When it's only tragedy Why turn on my radio When the headlines hurt you know We are all immigrants Sorry for the bad news It's always an issue

Missing person at the window I wonder where you are Staring at me Used to come around here every day Now you're breakin' Used to be the one that is not ashamed Now you shamin' Lost in all the wars we fought Never saw a road

Wheat kings and pretty things Sundown in the Paris of the prairies Wheat kings have all their treasures buried And all you hear are the rusty breezes Pushing around the weather vane Jesus In his Zippo lighter, he sees the killer's face Maybe it's someone

Mother of us all Place of our birth We all are witness To the rape of the world How can we stand aside And watch the rape of the wold This the beginning of the end This the most heinous of crimes This the deadliest of sins

Is the only reason you're holding me tonight 'Cause we're scared to be lonely? Are we both losing our minds? Do we need somebody just to feel like we're alright? Oh oh oh, oh oh oh Magnifying all our flaws And I wonder why, wonder what for Why we keep