Here I stand in the middle of the land Take my hand in the middle of the land You'll see something that's new in the sunshine You'll be the winter that's turning to springtime Here I stand in the middle of the land (in the middle of the land) Take my hand in the middle of the land (in the middle of the land) Someday someone will try to confuse you And they'll say things you want to hear and they'll use you I thought we'd live and learn But some folks seem to yearn For values unsophisticated Those days are dead and gone I won't wish them back upon A world that's much more complicated, yeah Here I stand in the middle of the land (in the middle of the land) Take my hand in the middle of the land (in the middle of the land) I said here I stand in the middle of the land (in the middle of the land) You gotta take my hand, I'm always glad to hand (in the middle of the land) They'll try to blind you with T.V. religion Don't buy their hand-me-down second-opinions Sometimes the biggest lies Are most easily disguised Dressed up like the road to glory Then somewhere down the line You will rub your eyes and find You're on a path to your own purgatory, yeah (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) Yeah You'll know something as old as the moonlight You'll throw superstition and fear away tonight They'll paint us black and white They'll paint us wrong and right They'll paint us all into a corner They'll try to cool us down But they could never fool us now We're steamed up hotter than a Swedish sauna Here I stand (in the middle of the land) Take my, take my hand (your horizons will expand) Land (in the middle, middle of the land) Land (in the middle, middle of the land) (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) in the middle of the land (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) in the middle, middle of the land (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) middle of the land (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) land on me