Well I searched for myself as I poured over pages Of ManDate and Rough Trade, the old magazines Instead what I found was a fire, a fury An anger that grew with a sure certainty That no time and no place would exist in this life Where a body like mine would truly be free So I drag and I swish through the dangers untold I dream in XXX theater late night picture shows Where the lonely and lustful and rejected reign Where the shadow meets shadow in the dark alleyway Send me a sign Or send me a sin Or set me free from this earthy burden When I am dust Let the test pattern play Let the signal go static In a long slow fade Meet me in shadow Or meet me in memory Meet me across the river Where I am free I studied each John and I prayed to Divine I walked the path of all the elders similarly inclined I found the price of living in the somewhere in between Is the loneliness the comes with never truly being seen But the road is long, who needs sleep When I've got miles to go before I dream When I am dust Let the test pattern play Let the signal go static In a long slow fade Meet me in shadow Or meet me in memory Meet me across the river Where I am free Meet me in shadow Or meet me in memory Meet me across the river Where I am free Meet me across the river Where I am free