there's truth in the gutter though it slips down the drain and in the soaring steeple standing solo in the rain each is worth understanding part of the human chain each one is revealing to us comfort or pain oh it's easy to misvalue the sacred and profane and we all have a cover to keep the truth from one another we live behind our twisted minds afraid to bare the straight line to our sacred heart oh it's easy to misvalue the sacred and profane and we all have a cover to hide the truth from one another we live behind our twisted minds afraid to bare the straight line to our sacred heart there's truth in the gutter though it slips down the drain and in the soaring steeple standing solo in the rain?