I'm trying to tell you something bout my life
maybe give me insight between black and white
and the best thing you've ever done for me
is to help me take my life less seriously
it's only life, after all, yeah
Well, darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
and lightness has a call that's hard to hear
I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it
I'm crawling on your shores.
I went to the doctor
I went to the mountain
I looked to the children
I drank from the fountain
There's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in a crooked line
and the less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
Well, I went to see the doctor of Philosophy
with a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
He never did marry or see a B-Grade Movie
He graded my performance
He said he could see through me
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind
I got my paper and I was free
I went to the doctor ...
I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m.
To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend
And I woke up with a headache
like my head against the board
Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before
I went in seeking clarity
I went to the doctor ...
We go to the Bible
we go through the workout
we read up on revival
we stand up on the lookout
But there's more than one answer to these questions
pointing me in a crooked line
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
(INDIGO GIRLS, 1989)