Well, there is trouble in my mind
    There is dark
    There's dark, and there is light.
    I lay our hands over my eyes
    As I look deep
    Through valleys deep and wide
    Across the border line
    For the Empire in My Mind
    
    You are the reason I don't sleep
    You are the light
    That's breaking through the leaves
    You know how hard I try
    To believe
    I have something good inside
    Over barricades I climb
    For the Empire in My Mind.
    
    I have no love somewhere in time
    I've been lifted up
    I've looked honor in the eyes
    I have no reason; I have no rhyme
    I cannot deny
    There's a darkness that's inside
    I am guilty by design
    And now I realize
    The temptation's made me blind
    To the Empire in My Mind
    
    There is no order
    There is chaos
    And there is crime
    There is no one home tonight
    In the Empire in My Mind
    
    There is no distance that I don't see
    I do have a will
    No limit to my reach
    I wish I would; I wish I might
    See a line tonight
    Separating wrong from right
    Some are only born to try
    And maybe that's the reason why
    I am afraid someday I'll find
    There is no Empire in My Mind
    
    There is trouble in my life
    There is trouble in my life