“Inside” is track seven from the 1996 self-titled debut album Gravity Kills. It is the second or third song written by the band.
The track was written about a dark and rainy night in Soulard, St Louis. The song was written from the perspective of a man trapped inside his house looking out his windo...
I live in the bright light
Walking in the dark midnight
Skin pale from the street light
Kill time, nothing to do
Inside looking outside
Clawing at the door, shut tight
You can't run and you can't hide
White lies, fearing the truth
See ghosts in the shadow
Living in the past, feel cold
While trying to remember
Time is stealing my youth
Still trapped on the inside
Wearing regret skin-tight
Like fire on the outside
All gone, nothing in view
Time is nothing
When you've nothing to do
Don't you know that you can't hide something
When it's living in, living in you
I live in bright light
Living in the past, shut tight
Skin pale from the street light
White lies stealing my youth
See ghosts in the shadow
Clawing at the door, midnight
You can't run and you can't hide
All gone, fearing the truth
Time is nothing
When you've nothing to do
Don't you know that you can't hide something
When it's living in, living in you