Now there's a heart in the middle
Of somewhere tonight
Screaming for reasons
Or just a way out
I put the shirt off my back
On a wager that says
There's one every night
From my old school yard days
One golden rule
One golden rule
I hear you say
One golden rule
There's been times I've been stood
In the wind and the rain
Freezing and busted
And tricked out of luck
And I cursed my teachers
For all of their reading
What we needed most
Can't be found in them books
One golden rule
Just one golden rule
And I hear you say
One golden rule
One golden rule
They can teach you to swim
But they don't speak of the danger
Tell you the truth
But they never say why
Put you on ice that is thin
And they tell you it's winter
Without one golden rule
The truth is a lie
One golden rule
One golden rule
And I hear you say
Just one golden rule
Yeah
One golden rule
One golden rule
And I hear you say
One golden rule
One golden rule
One golden rule
And I hear you say
One golden rule