Paradise is a lonely place

When it’s looking you right in the face

Nobody’s gonna turn the key

To set you free

In the beginning it’s a mystery

Like misery without the company

Rock bottom with some wall-to-wall

It’s the same thing when you fall

Drifted up here back in ’85

I was hollowed out and only half alive

High places when you’re feeling low

It’s a risky way to go

Watched em follow like a holy flood

Sticks and stones and half a ton of mud

Washing out on every corner of

These empty streets of town

CHORUS

If you find out when I’m gone

I was too proud to hold on

From the pulpit of some lonely mountainside

Turn away the creeping of this cold and desperate tide

Higher ground, it ain’t too high to catch yourself a ride

Said I’m never going back again

Everything to lose and nothing left to win

Tell me someday it was worth the cost

Of the miles I had to cross

Bright sides, they never were my kind

If you look too long, you think you’re going blind

Just leave me fighting somewhere in between

It’ll keep me living clean