It all started here, she was a girl form the Midwest

He was a stranger in a strange land, same old story

He came for the glory

She came looking for a young man's hand But they found bright lights, endless nights

And men just used her innocent ways

He found it all so pretty, hypnotized by the city

They lost sight of the reason, they lost count of the days And they were two souls searching for each other

One spirit looking for the other

Caught between a hard

Hard place and a rock Two souls searching for heaven

Rolling the dice looking for a seven

To the tick, tick, ticking of time

Gotta beat the clock Too many nights on the ledge, he acquired a knife-edge

Still the city didn't acquiesce to his demands

Some nights, she cried for pity in the heart of the city

The city smacked her hands He met her one endless night, her eyes had a light

There was something familiar about the smell of her skin

He held her tighter and tighter as he danced inside her

She knew from the moment that she let him in They'd been two souls searching for each other

One spirit looking for the other

Caught between a hard

Hard place and a rock Two souls searching for heaven

Rolling the dice looking for a seven

To the tick, tick, ticking of time

Gotta beat the clock Beat the clock

Beat the clock

Beat the clock Two souls searching for each other

One spirit looking for the other

Caught between a hard

Hard place and a rock, yeah Two souls searching for heaven

Rolling the dice looking for a seven

To the tick, tick, ticking of time

Gotta beat the clock Two souls searching for each other

One spirit looking for the other

Caught between a hard

Hard place and a rock Two souls searching for heaven

Rolling the dice looking for a seven

To the tick, tick, ticking of time

Gotta beat the clock