Where Have the Simple Answers Gone---

Where Have the Simple Answers Gone

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Verse 1:

Lately all these problems have become so tangled and deep

Those simple, honest answers — where have they all gone to sleep?

Verse 2:

There's no will inside the heart, no fire left to start

Have any problems ever been solved this way, tell me apart?

Chorus:

Where have the simple answers gone?

Every knot is twisted now

The moon's height and the ocean's depth

We found them — but lost our common ground somehow

Verse 3:

How do I believe that man is the finest of all kinds

After seeing all the horrors that have happened here in time?

Verse 4:

Let a stranger judge my worth — I don't care what they see

In their own eyes, everyone has become their own deity

Verse 5:

Why this complaint that what we got is less than what we dreamed?

All the things that had to happen — where the hell have they been deemed?

Bridge:

Everyone looks out through windows at the world on every side

But no one truly knows the home in which they live inside

Verse 6:

Look away for just one moment from the glitter of these skins

Won't someone see what's happened to the hearts beneath their grins?

Outro (soft, spoken-sung):

Lately all these problems… tangled and so deep

Those simple, honest answers —

Where have they all gone to sleep?