Wilderness Song

Maggie says she's walking alone
On the road through the wilderness she's going
A good forty days
Maggie says she met some evil there
As she hides her frostbit fingers in her hair
Says it's how she prays

Ain't it always in the corner of your mind?
The ghost-like face of something divine?
Who can say what's fact or fiction?
Who really has conviction?
Walk on down out of the wilderness

Well I followed her down and I almost died
From having nothing to eat and no place to hide
From a burning sun
And I strayed off the road
When I took a little shelter in an evil home
Now I'm the lonely one

Ain't it always in the corner of your soul?
Sometimes broke, sometimes whole?
Who can say that we'll part friends?
I will say it all depends
On if it's stone or sand we built the past upon

Maggie says if her heart is still warm
When temptation fades and the evil moves on
She'll come and see me again
Now I'm watching a figure walking my way
And Maggie's just a memory fading away
In the back of my brain

Ain't it always in the corner of your mind?
The ghost-like face of something divine?
Who can say what's fact or fiction?
Who really has conviction?
Walk on down out of the wilderness