Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine

1200 Curfews / 1995-10-24 1. I Don't Wanna Know 2. Virginia Woolf 3. Thin Line 4. Tangled Up In Blue 5. Dead Man's Hill 6. Midnight Train to Georgia 7. Love's Recovery 8. Strange Fire 9. Ghost 10. Power of Two 11. Jonas & Ezekial 12. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee 13. Language or the Kiss 14. Joking 15. Chickenman 16. Mystery 17. Down By the River 18. Galileo 19. Least Complicated 20. Pushing the Needle Too Far 21. Back Together Again 22. World Falls 23. Land of Canaan 24. This Train Revised 25. Closer to Fine 26. River

Closer to Fine

Words and Music: Emily Saliers

I'm trying to tell you something bout my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white
And the best thing you've ever done for me
Is to help me take my life less seriously
It's only life after all

Now darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
And lightness has a call that's hard to hear
I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it
I'm crawling on your shores

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains,
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine

I went to see the doctor of philosophy
With a poster of Rasputin, and a beard down to his knee
He never did marry, or see a b-grade movie
He graded my performance, he said he could see through me
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind
I got my paper and I was free

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains,
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine

*whistle*

I stopped by the bar at 3 am
To seek solace in a bottle, or possibly a friend
And I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
Twice as cloudy as I'd been the night before
I went in seeking clarity

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountain, I looked to the children, I drank
from the fountain
We go to the doctor, we go to the mountains, we look to the children, we drink
from the fountains
We go to the bible, we go through the workout, we read up on revival, we stand
up for the lookout
There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine