Yeah baby

He told you he could be the man that I could never be
He has a way at making promises that he can't keep
He gets so angry when I try to point this out
And still it's you who's always calling me this late at night
I know you miss the way I used to hold your body tight
You needed me girl but you never say it

If you love him more just tell me so (tell me so)
But do one thing for me before you go

Open your eyes
Girl if it's love
Why can't you sleep at night
Open your eyes
Why don't you tremble when he holds you tight
If it's the last thing that I ever do
Let me make this clear to you
Open up your eyes
Don't be blinded by his promises
Open your eyes
The one he says isn't who he is
There's more to us than you realize
So open your eyes

I know our history is something that we can't ignore
Just give me half the chance I'll make it better than before
Worse thing I did was give you wings to fly away
And if it's yesterday that keeps your heart from coming home
Girl I apologize for all the things that I've done wrong
To lose your love would be the price too high to pay

He can't love you more than I do
Girl don't let his sweet lies blind you

Open your eyes
Girl if it's love
Why can't you sleep at night
Open your eyes
Why don't you tremble when he holds you tight
If it's the last thing that I ever do
Let me make this clear to you
Open up your eyes
Don't be blinded by his promises
Open your eyes
The one he says isn't who he is
There's more to us than you realize
Just open your eyes

Oh no
Every night
I stay alone and pray that you
Wake up and find
My love is waiting here

Open your eyes
Yeah baby
If it's the last thing that I ever do
Let me make this clear to you
Open up your eyes
Don't be blinded by his promises
Open your eyes
The one he says isn't who he is
There's more to us than you realize
Open your eyes
Oh, open your eyes
Just open your eyes

All this feels strange and untrue
And I won't waste a minute without you

My bones ache, my skin feels cold
And I'm getting so tired, and so old

The anger swells in my guts
And I won't feel these slices and cuts

I want so much to open your eyes
'Cause I need you to look, into mine

Tell me that you'll open your eyes (x4)

Get up, get out, get away from these liars
'Cause they don't get your soul or your fire

Take my hand knot your fingers through mine
And we'll walk from this dark room, for the last time
Every minute from this minute now
We can do what we like, anywhere
I want so much to open your eyes
'Cause I need you to look into mine

Tell me that you'll open your eyes (x8)

All this feels strange and untrue
And I won't waste a minute without you

You think I give a shit, i´m wathing through your eyes through your eyes,
I just can't fucking stand the way you always have to criticize.
You have to find something wrong in everything you see,
It seems it's not that hard for you to find everything that's wrong with me.

Open your eyes and face the truth
Open your eyes, the real problem's you.

Does it build your self-esteem to look for mistakes in everyone else?
The only answer that I could find is that you're just not happy with yourself.
You, hide something about yourself when you point out everybody else's
mistakes.
The problems that you have are just a little much for you to take.

Open your eyes, and face the truth.
Open your eyes, the real problem's you.

Would you change this all if you'd had your way,
Waking up in darkness must have been hard,
Finding all these moments burned into reminisce,
Desperaltely you crawl and ask yourself.

If you could just open your eyes,
If you could just open your eyes.

For everyone's sake,
For everyone's sake,
Stay away from here,
For everyone's sake,
I got left behind,
For eveyone's sake,
Stay away from here.

Making sense of senses you never found,
Clutching on to dust as hope becomes clearer,
People breathing air in hope of a perfect world,
All these chances you could make it all fit.

If you could just open your eyes,
If you could just open your eyes.

For everyone's sake,
For everyone's sake,
Stay away from here,
For everyone's sake,
I got left behind,
For eveyone's sake,
Stay away from here.

If you could just open you eyes.

Lately,
I'm not quite myself.
Maybe,
I do need some help.
Just my confusion,
Trust my delusion.

Don't you,
Regret you met me.
Go through,
These steps to get me,
Back to where we start,
'Fore I fall apart.

If I could black out,
It'd become so clear,
Standing face-to-face with everything I fear.
Watch so closely,
but still I don't see.
As bad as it seems,
a piece of mind I steal,
An ordinary life,
But consequences real.
I'm past the point of reality.

This isn't me,
This isn't you,
When it's just everything we do.
Till you open up your eyes,
and understand this isn't real.
This isn't me,
This isn't you,
This is everything but true,
Till we come to realize,
It's what we put each other through.

It's like a bad dream,
Coming all so true,
Leaving me with nothing else left to do.
Now so helpless,
I'm not so selfish.
Tell me,
How does it feel to have a face like that,
How does it feel to be replaced like that.
Now so faceless,
Do you still feel?

This isn't me,
This isn't you,
When it's just everything we do.
Till you open up your eyes,
and understand this isn't real.
This isn't me,
This isn't you,
This is everything but true,
Till we come to realize,
It's what we put each other through.

It's hard to believe right now,
This seems to be real.
Still phasing by this time,
So why can't I wake up.

This isn't me,
This isn't you,
When it's just everything we do.
Till you open up your eyes,
and understand this isn't real.
This isn't me,
This isn't you,
This is everything but true,
Till we come to realize,
It's what we put each other through.

Open your eyes now,
open your eyes now.
It’s time to see,
if you can reach me.
Open your eyes now,
Open your eyes now
It’s time to leave,
it's time to leave me.

Open your eyes now,
open your eyes now.
It’s time to see,
if you still believe in me.
Open your life now,
open your life now.
I’ll try to be all that you need me to be.

She’ll be a star now,
I will follow her lead
She’ll be a scar now,
I will still let her bleed

Open your eyes now,
open your eyes now.
And try to speak,
like you can see me.
Open your eyes now,
open your eyes now.
I’ll try to be almost everything you need me to be.

She’ll be a star now,
I will follow her lead.
She’ll be a scar now,
I will still let her bleed,
all over me...

Tell me what I could have said or done
To hold you back
All the love I gave was not enough
Forever I'll walk alone

My body froze as I saw you fall (falling down)
One single step saw you give your heart to the earth
Down below

Open your eyes
Open your eyes
Open your eyes and look at me, I´m alone here
Open your eyes
Open your eyes
Open your eyes and look at me, I´m alone here

All at once the wind has changed its song to a wailing cry
As it seems to call my name I know forever I'll walk alone

My body froze as I saw you fall (falling down)
One single step saw you give your heart to the earth
Down below

Open your eyes
Open your eyes
Open your eyes and look at me, I'm alone here
Open your eyes
Open your eyes
Open your eyes and look at me, I'm alone here

My body froze as I saw you fall (falling down)
One single step saw you give your heart to the earth
Down below

Yeah baby

He told you he could be the man that I could never be
He has a way at making promises that he can't keep
He gets so angry when I try to point this out
And still it's you who's always calling me this late at night
I know you miss the way I used to hold your body tight
You needed me girl but you never say it

If you love him more just tell me so (tell me so)
But do one thing for me before you go

Open your eyes
Girl if it's love
Why can't you sleep at night
Open your eyes
Why don't you tremble when he holds you tight
If it's the last thing that I ever do
Let me make this clear to you
Open up your eyes
Don't be blinded by his promises
Open your eyes
The one he says isn't who he is
There's more to us than you realize
So open your eyes

I know our history is something that we can't ignore
Just give me half the chance I'll make it better than before
Worse thing I did was give you wings to fly away
And if it's yesterday that keeps your heart from coming home
Girl I apologize for all the things that I've done wrong
To lose your love would be the price too high to pay

He can't love you more than I do
Girl don't let his sweet lies blind you

Open your eyes
Girl if it's love
Why can't you sleep at night
Open your eyes
Why don't you tremble when he holds you tight
If it's the last thing that I ever do
Let me make this clear to you
Open up your eyes
Don't be blinded by his promises
Open your eyes
The one he says isn't who he is
There's more to us than you realize
Just open your eyes

Oh no
Every night
I stay alone and pray that you
Wake up and find
My love is waiting here

Open your eyes
Yeah baby
If it's the last thing that I ever do
Let me make this clear to you
Open up your eyes
Don't be blinded by his promises
Open your eyes
The one he says isn't who he is
There's more to us than you realize
Open your eyes
Oh, open your eyes
Just open your eyes

You can't keep me holding on I've giving you some time
I can't make you come along if you don't share your mind
Every time you close your eyes I know you feel the same
Everything you try to fight is drowning in the rain

What does it take to open your eyes
Don't let it fade
You got to let the sunshine through the rain
Open your eyes don't make me wait
You got to let the sunshine through the rain

TEll me why you turn away, whenever I believe
Finally you come to say I'm everything you need
Everytime you close your eyes I know you feel the same
Everything you try to fight is drowning in the rain

What does it take to open your eyes
Don't let it fade
You got to let the sunshine through the rain
Open your eyes don't make me wait
You got to let the sunshine through the rain

I'm not asking of you, to give yourself away
I just want you to hear the words I say
It's only a matter of time
It's only a matter of time
It's only a matter of time
It's only a matter of time
What does it take to open your eyes
Don't let it fade
You got to let the sunshine through the rain
Open your eyes don't make me wait
You got to let the sunshine through the rain

You want what you deserve
But it's right in front of you
You want something better
Than any other
You don't even bother
To figure what it is
That you think you deserve
You'll find it all one day
But not this way
Open your eyes
Your heart will follow
Open your eyes
See what you've been missing
Open your eyes
And find the answer
I can't take anymore
Have you ever asked yourself
What am I looking for
You're indecisive
You are just another
Caught up in all of this
Plastic glamorous world
You'll never see
Who you could be
Open your eyes
Your heart will follow
Open your eyes
See what you've been missing
Open your eyes
And find the answer
Your world is waiting, anticipating
But your time is fading
If you never open your eyes
If only you could see
That there's something you can do
To make this better
Open your eyes
Your heart will follow
Open your eyes
See what you've been missing
Open your eyes
And find the answer
You're world is waiting, anticipating
But your time is fading
If you never open your eyes

you believe everything you read and i don't understand why you do this.
soon everyone will know and everyone will hear.
open your eyes. we tried so hard but you don't co-oper-ate
you are a fuck-up and you'll never know it
because people believe everything you say
and i don't understand because it's bullshit.

Your runnin' the race that never ends to make amends
With the friends that you've had since the day that your life began
You're caught up in the rat race with your face disgraced
'Cause there's a time and a place for everything
And so we bring what you can sing
Givin' glory and honor to the one we call the King
You gotta fix your eyes on Him cause you know
That death is the wages of sin
So open up your eyes

[Chorus]

Just open your eyes it's time you realize
It's your own demise
just open your eyes it's time you realize
To reach out for the prize

Comin' once again bringin the noise to fill you in
on this secret that you'll see when you open up your eyes within
So party people when you've fallen down you've had enough
Just open 'em up and let Him fill your cup
You can't do anything without consequences and repercussions
You think the world owes you something well stop you fussin
'Cause it ain't my fault it's nobody buy yours
So see what your life has in store when you open up your eyes
Don't blink

Open your eyes motherfucker

In this world of bullshit and lies
Jealously and hatred run rampant
Simple minded fould, cower in fear
To the slaughter the weak are branded
Eyes closed tight and ears held shut
To what is going on right around you
A dull pain deep in your guy
With fists or words I pound you

I hate your apathy
I'm gonna make you see
For all humanity as you are on your knees
You say how can it be,
You thought you held the key
But you never cared about me
Your death will set me free
There's a riot inside my mind
The agony fuels my fire of hate

Fed up with your conservative views
Your concerns just seem too little too late
Apathy, you live for yourself
In the guilded cage of your insolent mind
I cut off your head in the name of what's right
And free the ideas of human kind

You can't keep me holding on
I've given you some time
I can't make you come along
If you don't share your mind
Everytime you close your eyes
I know you feel the same
Everything you try to fight
Is drowning in the rain
What does it take, to open your eyes
Don't let if fade
You've got to let the sun shine through the rain
Open your eyes, don't let me wait
You've got to let the sun shine through the rain
Tell me why you turn away whenever I believe
Finally you've come to say I'm everything you need
Everytime you close your eyes
I know you feel the same
Everything you try to fight
Is drowning in the rain
What does it take to open your eyes
Don't let it fade
You've got to let the sun shine through the rain
Open your eyes, don't let me wait
You've got to let the sun shine through the rain
I'm not asking of you, to give yourself away
I just want you to hear the words I say
It's only a matter of time x4
What does it take to open your eyes
Don't let it fade
You've got to let the sun shine through the rain
Open your eyes don't let me wait
You've got to let the sunshine through the rain

You've got a great imagination

You carry on in the same old way
No lessons learned from yesterday

Talk of changes lost in pages of paperwork

I believe it...
How can we refuse to see
I've received it...
What could be our final destiny
I believe that...
Still we go on from day to day
Knowing what could be true

Wish I knew
Wish I knew
Wish I knew

Open your eyes and discover
You're not the only one
In disguise
Do you wonder
When the change is gonna come?

Open your eyes

You've got a great imagination

We cast the world, we set the stage
For what could be the darkest age

Short exchanges
From perfect strangers
We'll never know
But wish we knew

I believe it...
It's time to face reality
I've received it...
Questioning the powers that be
I believe it...
Are we too confused to see?

Wish I knew
Wish I knew
Wish I knew
Wish I knew

Open your eyes and discover
You're not the only one
In disguise
Do you wonder
When the change is gonna come?

Open your eyes
You've got a great imagination
Open your eyes
Show it
Show it

Wish we knew

I believe it...
It's time to face reality
I've received it...
Things aren't what they used to be
I believe it...
What I see in you, you see in me

Wish I knew
Wish I knew
Wish I knew
Wish I knew

Open your eyes and discover
You're not the only one
In disguise
Do you wonder
When the change is gonna come?

Change is gonna come
Change is gonna come
Change is gonna come
You've got a great imagination

Change is gonna come
Change is gonna come
Change is gonna come
You've got a sweet imagination

Change is gonna come
Open your eyes
Change is gonna come
Open your eyes
Change is gonna come
You've got a deep imagination coming

Show it
Show it
Show it

Show it
Show it
Show it

Hide your face forever
dream and search forever

Have you ever been for sale ?
when your isms get smart
oh so selfish and mindless
with that comment in your eye

Do you think that you are hard ?
really harder than the other
man you're acting cold
if you are not in charge

Don't split your mentality
without thinking twice
your voice has got no reason
now is the time to face your lies

Open your eyes, open your mind
proud like a god don't pretend to be blind
trapped in yourself, break out instead
beat the machine that works in your head

Will you offer me some tricks
if I ever need them
would you go into that room
if I call 'em

Do you think that you are better
really better than the rest
realize there's a problem
I know that you can give your best

Have you ever had a dream?
or is life just a trip?
a trip without chances
a chance to grow up quick

Open your eyes, open your mind ...

Hide your face forever
dream and search forever
night and night you feel nothing
there's no way outside of my land

Open your eyes, open your mind ...

There's just too many rages
Too many infinite screams at night, we're living in concrete cages
Another child is doomed, to be torn in his mother's womb
by the spark of the twelve gauges
Sometimes it seems like I can't go on, I can't go on
But when I envision a black man with thorns in his hand
on a crucifix I get strong
Never will I ever let a devil deceive me again (HA!) mislead me
Cause what I'ma hit you with's gonna hurt (yeah)
Because the flesh is meaningless it remains amongst the dirt
But the soul is uplifted
10-31-67 I'm God gifted
MC's are changing it grows like a fungus
Beware of the evil that walks among us, behold
a fallen angel, hark, the rebel
The mark of 6-6-6, the Devil
You better beware cause he's comin behind you
No it doesn't take long for him to find you
It's a sneak attack black, he's gonna smack you
In the form of a rock that's inside of a capsule
Or maybe in the form of a man
that says to trust me and then begins to shake your hand
But when you examined your hand you learned
you're alarmed that your palm was disfigured and burned
No no no no, it's not surprising
Open your book, look to the horizon
Start scoping, open your eyes and strive to
study the holy Qu'ran or read the holy Bible
I'm making a getaway, plan it's gonna be a better way
There's gotta be a better day

Hmmmmmmm... and now I ask, Lord have mercy upon me
and grant me sight, for what I can't see
For you are the shephard and I shall not want
to front, yes to be blunt, I won't flunk
For I am blessed with the gift of knowledge (yeah)
without college, but now let's shift
into the specific dimension that we call Earth
Where God gave us the gift of birth
Last but not least Ephessians 6 tells you to teach the child
Revelation tells about two day swarms, the guns and diseases
Homicides over epidemics and crack vials
Got guns going BUCK BUCK BUCK BUCK
And when you look up you see a kid got struck
But mentally the blood pours out of the mother's heart
Cause it hurts to lose to Lucifer's part (mmm, yeah)
Yes, for I have seen the light
That shines bright even in the dark of the night
And I (I) thank (thank) thee (thee)
For constantly watching over me
There are about, four hundred and fifty-thousand homeless without housing
Brothers sharing cells and sharing beds
They can't seek a job with this hair that's dread
Sit back and face reality with these lyrics
I hope they can uplift your spirits
(we're living in the last days, we're living in the last days)
Cause God made water and trees food man woman
land fire grass animals clouds and sunrays to shine
on the parents of those twenty-six kids that died last year (last year)
And it's a shame it's a crying shame, uhh
Sometimes I felt that I was there
You better get up and wipe to clear your eyes
And get right with the master of disguise

Looking back I clearly see
What it is that's killing me
Through the eyes of one I know
I see a vision once let go
I had it all

Constantly it burdens me
Hard to trust and can't believe
Lost the faith and lost the love
When the day is done

Will they open their eyes
And realize we are one
On and on we stand alone
Until our day has come
When they open their eyes
And realize we are one

I love the way I feel today
But how I know the sun will fade
Darker days seem to be
What will always live in me
But still I run

It's hard to walk this path alone
Hard to know which way to go
Will I ever save this day
Will it ever change

Will they open their eyes
And realize we are one

Still today we carry on
I know our day will come
When they open their eyes
And realize we are one

Will they open their eyes
And realize we are one
(its hard to walk this path alone
hard to know which way to go)
Will they open their eyes
and realize we are one
(lost the faith and lost the love when the day is done)

Will they open their eyes
And realize we are one

Do you think I give a shit
How I'm seen through your eyes?!
I just can't fucking stand
The way you always have to criticize!!
YOU have to find something wrong
In everything you see!
It seems it's not that hard for you
To find everything that's wrong with me!!

Open your eyes,
And face the truth.
(Oah, oah. Pick it up.)
Open your eyes,
The real problem's YOU!!

Does it build your self esteem
To look for mistakes in everyone else?
The only answer I could find is that
You're just not happy with yourself!!
YOU hide something about yourself
When you point out everyone else's mistakes,
'Cause all the problems that you have
Would just be too much for you to take!!

Open your eyes,
And face the truth.
(Oah, oah, oah, oah.)
Open your eyes,
The real problem's YOU!!!!

Day after day
All I saw was you
And the sky came a tumblin' down
Smoke in the air
All I want is truth
I am a light that's aglow, that's alive
That's a warm place in your heart
You kept turning me on and off
'Til I went out and you were standing shivering in the dark

Open your eyes
And see me leaving
Closing the door
I won't think twice
When you come pleaing
Not ANYMORE

Hope was a dream that I had of you
In the soft warm slumber of dawn
I must keep in mind
That reality can be painful if neglected too long
I am aware
That I will soon be released
To the mercy of a concrete jungle
I thought that I could glide right in
But instead
It's over loneliness and pride I stumble

Open your eyes
And see me leaving
Closing the door
I won't think twice
When you come pleaing
Not ANYMORE

Open your eyes
And see that I am not afraid of saying goodbye
Your strikes are up, I'm gone
So don't even try
'Cause I'm telling you right now
That I'm a free young woman
And I gotta be movin' on

Once I was lost in my strife
And getting you off was my life
I was in doubt, now I know
That getting rid of you was all I needed to grow
Once I was lost, now I'm found
With my adidas on the ground
Once I was blind, now I see
The negative effect that you were having on me

Open your eyes
And see me leaving
Closing the door
I won't think twice
When you come pleaing
Not ANYMORE

You're not the man
That I remember
Tell me your name
Cold empty seat
That long November
You never came

Open your eyes
And see me
See me leaving

We're here because of you
We're here because you were there
We've arrived from every corner of the planet to this nation
To seek the fullfilment of a promise of America
We were promised a better life in our home countries,
where we were told that privatizing water and electricity will make things run more efficiently
Instead the quality remained almost the same and the price was increased until it became an unaffordable luxury
Some corporations are more efficient than government,
but their motivation is not the health or the well being of the people,
it's only about profit, everything else, their image, their human resources,
their public relations, only exist to protect the reality behind it
Once upon a time,
we were told that nationalization would prevent growthy by limiting competition,
that our countries were nothing without the companies that invested in us and so they privatized everything,
everything in our country was owned by people that had no connection to our culture,
by those who never had our interests at heart,
they didn't care about our survival or well being,
they just wanted to turn a profit by raping our land,
by exploiting our people, our industry and our resources
They took everything we built and made it theirs,
first by creating racism to justfiy slavery,
building the capital for capitalism and then when they gave us what they call liberty,
everything we had was still owned by them,
our governments told us that socialism was the real enemy and that we would have freedom,
but the foreign powers and corporations were the ones with the real freedom
The freedom to take all the wealth generated by our work and our land and give us only a small percentage of the scraps from the table
Their lust for power and their greed drove them to betray not only us but themselves and the word of their own God
(Open your eyes before you die)
And while some used missionaries and donations to off set this abuse,
other countries and companies were blatant with their crimes, using war,
disease and sanctions that killed millions,
they supported corrupt governments that were almost like the old slave masters in their oppression of the people,
because their loyalty was to those who enable them, installed them and kept them in power,
they became the bastard children of American industry, kleptocracy, government's of thievery,
they protected the corporations and went to war against their own people to preserve those profits
The puppet rulers were given billions of US tax dollars to fund civil wars, right wing death squads,
execute political dissidence,
sympathetic clergy and even overthrow democratically elected governments and so the age of revolution began again,
they painted it as godless terrorists versus the free world and the free market
But the free market has never been free,
because the market does not regulate itself,
it is manipulated like a puppet and it survives because of its image,
destroy the image and the enemy will die
Such is the same in the rap industry,
where the major label super powers treat the underground like the 3rd world,
when they need new assets, new artists to prostitute or sign and put on a shelf to use their songs
When they needed new concepts,
music and publishing to steal from the producers,
they came to the underground, to the 3rd world,
they took our culture, our property and our industry and our resources,
even using our own people to help them exploit us
But behind the mask of efficiency,
they claimed that we need to succeed, they're no better than us,
their economic advertising was always a lie,
a few got rich but most were given an illusion of wealth,
almost as if it was designed for failure
Opportunity comes at the price of soul and the music,
so remember what they are underneath the fancy architecture,
glittering rented jewelry, the cars, the IMF loans, the seeds with suicide genes, 20 year contracts and oil blood money
Build your defenses my independent brothers and sisters,
they'll stop at nothing to get what they want, they paint the 3rd world, underground,
as savage and backward, but the super powers are no less corrupt,
they've just learned to disguise it better, cause they fix elections too,
they embezzle tax money, they go to war for resources,
they fund terrorism for their own benefit,
and when there's enough at stake... history's taught us that they'll even assassinate their own president.
(Open your eyes before you die x5)

As I walk along these streets
I see a man that walks alone
Distant echo of peoples feet
He has no place to call his own
A shot rings out from a roof over head
A crack head asks for change nearby
An old man lies in an alleyway dead
A little girl lost just stands there and cries

What would you do, if it was you
Would you take everything for granted like you do?

A boy just 13 on the corner for sale
Swallows his pride for another hit
Overpopulation there's no room in jail
But most of you don't give a shit
That your daughters are porno stars
and Your sons sell death to kids
You're so lost in your little worlds
Your little worlds you'll never fix

What would you do, if it was you
Would you take everything for granted like you do?

You turn away
As I walk along the streets
Soaking up the acid rain
Underneath the taxi cabs
I hear the streets cry out in vain

What would you do, if it was you
Would you take everything for granted like you do?

Open your eyes
To the millions of lies
That they tell you everyday
Open your mind
To the clever disguise
That the advertisements say

How do they know
What's good for you?

Wake up, wake up, whoa
Wake up, wake up, whoa
A shot to the head
They're better off dead
Will you wake up, wake up, whoa

Destroy all the land
And kill what you can
Just to make the profits rise
Sell you from birth
For all that you're worth
The money spreads like lies

And how do they know
What's good for you?

Wake up, wake up, whoa
Wake up, wake up, whoa
A shot to the head
They're better off dead
Will you wake up, wake up, whoa

Don't wanna hate you
Don't wanna blame it all on you
I'm out of options
If you don't look I'll force you to
If you don't look I'll force you to
If you don't look.. I'll force you to

Wake up, wake up, whoa
Wake up, wake up, whoa
A shot to the head
Just so you can be fed
Will you wake up, wake up, whoa

Open your eyes...
Open your eye

When I look into your eyes
I see a lot of hate
Pushing me away
You're haunted by a past
A past that brings you down
So you throw it all away
Again

Just try to find a place deep within your soul
And don't deny the child living deep inside
Open your eyes and find
This life's better than you know
It's in your hands now
Just open up your eyes

Deep inside of your mind
You're forced to believe
That nothing's gonna change
So I take you by the hand
And I lead you to a place
A place of happiness
Like this

Day after day
All I saw was you
And the sky came a tumblin' down
Smoke in the air
All I want is truth
I am a light that's aglow, that's alive
That's a warm place in your heart
You kept turning me on and off
'Til I went out and you were standing shivering in the dark

Open your eyes
And see me leaving
Closing the door
I won't think twice
When you come pleaing
Not ANYMORE

Hope was a dream that I had of you
In the soft warm slumber of dawn
I must keep in mind
That reality can be painful if neglected too long
I am aware
That I will soon be released
To the mercy of a concrete jungle
I thought that I could glide right in
But instead
It's over loneliness and pride I stumble

Open your eyes
And see me leaving
Closing the door
I won't think twice
When you come pleaing
Not ANYMORE

Open your eyes
And see that I am not afraid of saying goodbye
Your strikes are up, I'm gone
So don't even try
'Cause I'm telling you right now
That I'm a free young woman
And I gotta be movin' on

Once I was lost in my strife
And getting you off was my life
I was in doubt, now I know
That getting rid of you was all I needed to grow
Once I was lost, now I'm found
With my adidas on the ground
Once I was blind, now I see
The negative effect that you were having on me

Open your eyes
And see me leaving
Closing the door
I won't think twice
When you come pleaing
Not ANYMORE

You're not the man
That I remember
Tell me your name
Cold empty seat
That long November
You never came

Open your eyes
And see me
See me leaving