let's keep this long, yeah let's keep this sweet taste don't want to hear your whispers talk in haste hold out your arms, hold out for something good hold out and find the way you're told you should you want too much, you want to take control but you don't ever feel it from your soul it's getting hard to keep you off my back the thin veneer i am has got a crack i see the people that i know i look to i see the way they're looking at me right through i see them leading to a funeral pyre i need a guiding light much higher but i can't seem to raise my eyes i can barely ignore all of those tearful cries of the people rushing out to save their skin but i can't escape because it comes from within inside a part of what's supposed to stay hidden that is why she saw even through those lids that separate people don't always think the same and the disadvantages eventually came to this all that i need is a guiding light all that i need is a guiding light much higher much higher all that i need is a guiding light all that i need is a guiding light much higher much higher higher, much higher higher, much higher higher, much higher i'm not insane, but i know you'll let me in into a place where i can be in sin can't make you come, can't make you stay away but you could make me lose along the way well it's about time you read between the lines just about time you started picking up the signs that this portrait shown of perfection and good is painted by its subjects to hide them like a hood so understand the messages and read across my lips that i'll be keeping out of reach just beyond your fingertips all that i need is a guiding light all that i need is a guiding light much higher much higher all that i need is a guiding light all that i need is a guiding light much higher much higher much higher much higher much higher much higher much higher much higher much higher much higher much higher much higher much higher much higher all that i need is a guiding light all that i need is a guiding light much higher much higher much higher much higher much higher much higher much higher much higher much higher much higher