r/TalkNToast

I’m standing on a narrow line

Where the sun and shadows meet

No iron bars or heavy locks

Just the dust beneath my feet

Two worlds are pulling at my soul

Like the tide against the shore

But I’m a ghost inside a dream

Who can’t find the open door

The world I want is bright and far

It’s a house I can’t get in

The world I hate it calls my name

And it welcomes all my sin

I’m a guest in every room

But a stranger in them all

Waiting for the heavy rain

Or the winter leaf to fall

Oh it’s a prison with no walls

Just a line that I have drawn

Standing in the middle ground

Between the midnight and the dawn

I feel their joy I feel their pain

But they don’t even see my face

Just a traveler on the wire

Stuck in time and out of place

I watch them wither and I cry

I can feel the cold they fear

But when I go and when I die

No one sheds a single tear

They think I’m free they think I’m wild

Cause I’m walking in the wind

But I’m just paying for the time

And the mistakes where I have sinned

I pray the Lord to keep you safe

In the world where you belong

Don’t let your spirit find this line

Where the rhythm turns to wrong

Be happy in your mountain home

Or the valley far below

Don’t get stuck between the two

With no place for you to go

Yeah it’s a long and lonely line

One soul with nowhere to stay

Just a shadow on the wire

Watching the worlds fade away