Souls

(And sometimes you fail)

It all started here

She was a girl from the Midwest

He was a stranger in a strange land

Same old story

He came for the glory

She came lookin' for a young man's hand

But they found bright lights

Endless nights

And men just used her innocent ways

He found it all so pretty

Hypnotized by the city

They lost sight of the reason

They lost count of the days

And they were two souls searchin' for each other

One spirit lookin' for the other

And caught between a hard, hard place and a rock

Two souls searchin' for heaven

Rolling the dice, lookin' for a seven

To the tick, tick, tickin' of time, gotta beat the clock

Too many nights on the ledge

He acquired a knife-edge

Still the city didn't acquiesce to his demands

Some nights, she cried for pity

In the heart of the city

The city smacked her hands

He met her one endless night

Her eyes had a light

There was somethin' familiar about the smell of her skin

He held her tighter and tighter

As he danced inside her

She knew from the moment that she let him in

They'd been two souls searchin' for each other

One spirit lookin' for the other

And caught between a hard, hard place and a rock

Two souls searchin' for heaven

Rollin' the dice, lookin' for a seven

To the tick, tick, tickin' of time, gotta beat the clock

Beat the clock

Beat the clock

Beat the clock

Yeah

Two souls searchin' for each other

One spirit lookin' for the other

And caught between a hard, hard place and a rock

Yeah

Two souls searchin' for heaven

Rolling the dice, lookin' for a seven

To the tick, tick, tickin' of time, gotta beat the clock

Two souls searchin' for each other

One spirit lookin' for the other

And caught between a hard, hard place and a rock

Two souls searchin' for heaven

Rolling the dice, lookin' for a seven

To the tick, tick, tickin' of time, gotta beat the clock