I left a world that hurt me

Good news, bad news...that's what I bring

and I no longer hear these tears I sing

From the inside out, let freedom ring

I played with the Prince to do business with the King...

Bad news, sad news...drive a man mad news

A Mile High and falling to the city boy blues

Sex and drugs and sex and booze

There was a man who was sad because he had no shoes

until he met a man who had no feet

Now that's real deal right there, my sweet

Upbeat, downbeat, offbeat, off beat

Teardrops echo on the cold concrete

and the silence leaves a most deafening sound

So real and surreal as I was spinning around

The Prince of Lies tries pulling me back underground

but as my King is crowned, so let the lost be found

Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood

I left a world that hurt me for a love that never would

I started thinking out loud the only thing that I could

"The good news better be really, really good"...

And it was, and it is, and it always will be
because I saw the light, and the light is the key
that unlocks the darkness locked inside of me
Christ's love...is the light...that sets me free...