There's a heart in the middle of somewhere tonight   Screaming for reasons or just a way out   I put the shirt off my back on a wager that says   There's one every night from my old school yard days   I hear you say one golden rule   One golden rule      There's been times I've been stood in the wind and the rain   Freezing and busted and tricked out of luck   And I cursed my teachers for all of their reading   What we needed most can't be found in them books   One golden rule      Now they teach you to swim but they don't speak of the danger   Tell you the truth but they never say why   Put you on ice that is thin and tell you it's winter   Without one golden rule the truth is a lie   One golden rule