All i want is someone to believe in

But who to believe is hard to define

When some say the future is unwritten

Some say the simple things in life are the best

When all is dark and dusty down the tracks

And all paths from exile have roadblocks on all points

Saying "no, no way out of here, go back from where you came from"

And some say when you're down you fight the hardest

Some tighten the belt others let go

Someone once said, if you don't ask you don't receive

Someone showed me that written down in the back of a book



And as i reach out and see my life unfold

I tell you this because i truly believe in it

Ask and you'll receive my friend

Seek and you shall find

Oh won't you help me now.



Only the thunder knows

What drives a man in his darkest throes

Fortune and poverty

They're oh so close, oh so close

Only the thunder



And some say everything must have a reason

Some say everything will one day soon come to pass

Some say that's life, that's the way the cards fall

Someone once said the answer's blowin' in the wind

And the word i seek to answer all my questions



Is written down on everything i see

It's in the words written on the subway walls

It's filling the concert halls.



Only the thunder knows

What drives a man in his darkest throes

Fortune and poverty

They're oh so close, oh so close

Only the thunder



I know youre out there in this world my friend

I know ill find you, i know ill find you

Ill be searching all night through the thunder and rain

One day ill find you, one day ill find you



Oh won't you help me now



Only the thunder knows

What drives a man in his darkest throes

Fortune and poverty

Theyre oh so close, oh so close

Only the thunder

Only the thunder