I’ve been blinded by the light, but darkness covers me.

Every track I leave in the sand is swallowed by the sea.

Why do my wheels keep on spinnin’ around?

Why can’t I keep my feet on the ground?

The more things change the more they stay the same…

Who’ll stop the rain?

I’m tired of cryin’…afraid of dyin’

Seeing my life pass before my eyes

I’m tired of cryin’…but I keep tryin’

And I never know just why

You were my lover and a friend

I had to lose to win

I’m tired of cryin’…

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All around me I see those who are reaching for a higher level of living.

Buying the drugs that they are selling.

Feeling a glimpse of fulfilled possibilities, yet left broken, and hopeless.

With no easy way to enlightenment and no message given in a way that it easily understood, with nothing to relate to,

they seek their only known comfort zone.

Thus the cycle of ignorant evil continues, and that is what the illusionist wants.

The suffering is paused by the dealer who knows that the drug will bring more suffering, and thus the desire for a quick pause.