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...