Well, there is trouble in my mind
There is dark
There's dark, and there is light.

I lay our hands over my eyes
As I look deep
Through valleys deep and wide

Across the border line
For the empire in my mind


You are the reason I don't sleep
You are the light
That's breaking through the leaves

You know how hard I try
To believe
I have something good inside

Over barricades I climb
For the empire in my mind.


I have no love somewhere in time
I've been lifted up
I've looked honor in the eyes

I have no reason; I have no rhyme
I cannot deny
There's a darkness that's inside



I am guilty by design

And now I realize
The temptation's made me blind
To the empire in my mind


There is no order
There is chaos

And there is crime
There is no one home tonight
In the empire in my mind


There is no distance that I don't see
I do have a will

No limit to my reach
I wish I would; I wish I might
See a line tonight

Separating wrong from right
Some are only born to try
And maybe that's the reason why

I am afraid someday I'll find
There is no empire in my mind


There is trouble in my life
There is trouble in my life