Where the Answers Lie
Sleep in the eye of fire my friend
Walk in my shoes, be where I've been
You don't know what it's like for me
To be alone with my misery
I'm burning full of empty hate
Don't blame me for my mistakes.
I need a place to hide away
From the world I left behind
And the life I let die
A place I can find
Where the answers lie
Help me swallow my empty rage
Break the mirror so I can't see my face
The only light I see is that which comes thru the bars
I can't go back, I've come too far
Sometimes it's a mistake to ask why,
'cause you never know what you might find
Too much time on my hands, too much time in my mind
Too much time to think about the things I left behind
Too much time to find
Where the answers lie
Where the answers lie
Is a very sick place inside
I don't want to go there
But it's a choice that's not mine
And when I have questions that ask the wrong things
The answers are enough to make me scream.
The answers are found only in the darkest of the lights
In the place where the answers lie.
My window to the outside world shows me what I left behind
The responsibility, the fault, is all mine
I've spent my life believing something, now they've taken that away
Put me behind bars, declared me mentally insane
I'd give anything to go back, but I'd never be able to live again
My life would be a lie, a massive waste
And now I pay the penance for my crime
In a hell that should not be mine
A hell that's the only place to find
Where the answers lie
I've cried so much I've run out of tears to shed
And I wish I had the freedom to forsake life for death
But now, for the rest of my life, I'm condemned to my fate
When the answers are black and white, only the truth remains gray
The only face I see all day is the one that stares back from the mirror
And the only thing I hear are the footsteps in the corridor
I'm sure it won't be too long before I lose my mind
Before they take away the last thing I can truly call mine
And when it's dark, when the shadows that hide the light come in
It'll be just another night to find
Where the answers lie
Can't say we didn't try, can you?
MIDI of Metallica's "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)", from their 1986 Master of Puppets album)