Story Behind The Song

This song came from too much time away from home, consuming every vice in the path, until you disgust and despise even yourself. Until sex is boring, drugs are boring, overindulgence is boring...and you have left to crave is simplicity and something real.

Song Description

Being out on tour for too long gives you a sense of "Dirty Life" you start to ask the question: "How's the clean world?" This song is about longing for innocence. A cleansing of mind, body and soul. It may also be interpreted as curiosity and wonder of the simpler...less glorious path not taken.

Lyrics

Imagining I was returning home from
this journey grown beyond my expectation
Step through the doorway, some hesitation
I call your name and it wakes me from this spell

Take me down to the riverside
cleanse me of all I come to stand for
Take me back to a simpler time
when virtue bore more weight than...
...Gold is a venom no drug can dispel
bliss for those who blindly walk a path to hell
Forgive me my transgressions and help me to forget
Every painful pleasure and all its sweet regret

Imagining that life was coming to an end
I cannot pretend that I would rather be
Anywhere else than by your side my good friend
Together we'll transcend this dream

(Repeat Chorus)