Lyric discussion by NWNmoon 

Cover art for Closer to Believing lyrics by Emerson, Lake & Palmer

A very beautiful song about love and how its something inside us which needs something, or someone, from outside us to complete it. The longing is something which belongs to our humanity, the will to be, to express, to understand and importantly, to share. Like children we need love. We grow and often forget this, made numb by the "opium of custom", falling into the habits we then call us and sometimes our need to know ourselves takes us to "the ledges of extremes" which can distance us. Because sharing ourselves is an important part of knowing ourselves when the whole world is sitting on the ledges of extremes, full of strangers in a strange land, it's the lonely place we see today. To dream and share the dreams of others, the child in others: "unless you become like a little child you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven"; and guess what, it's inside you.