The grass looked greener on the other side 

So I tried to, snatch myself from your hand 

Caught a boat to anywhere but Nineveh 

And, well you know, I got spit back on dry land. 

Verse 1: 

Give me purity and give me continence 

But oh no, not yet. 

Like a coin hiding in the corner 

Trying not to be swept 

And I was trying not to be swept. 



Kicking against these goads 

Sure did cut up my feet 

And didn't your hands get bloody 

As you washed them clean (you washed them!), 



Chorus: 

Here I am again, back where I began 

Try as I may I can't get away from you 

And all of these roads lead me to roam, 

Bring me back home. 

Here I am again, back where I began. 



Verse 2: 

So you have yourself your ninety nine (ninety nine), 

Isn't that enough for you? 

Still you followed me to the shadowed valley 

Carried me on your shoulders too. 



I've done the work of Sisyphus 

Thinking that I could get over this hill 

But the one thing I can't get over now...(is the) 

Is the force of your will. 



Chorus x2