Eyes Wide

You write and you write but it's never been read

'Cause the words on the paper aren't the ones in your head

Whatever you're thinking, whatever you're dreaming

You can't mould something that's never been seen

The words from your mouth aren't the ones when you drink

The words you're so sure of from which you may shrink

You speak the magic with your heart and your soul

The words you were born with the ones that you know

Eyes wide, hand tied,

Hard drive, rewired,

Books ripped, and thrown into the night

You read what they say although it's written in red

'Cause the quotes in the papers never were said

The words you believe are the ones you've been sold

Come hear a story that's never been told

There once was a man who thought that he knew

Fought for his country, red, white and blue

Now he's lying in a foreign field

His words are forgotten and he's tagged by his heels

You wake in the morning with words in your head

You should have been working you're drinking instead

You sleep in the evening the sleep of the dead

An empty promise never kept

You can run and run but you'll never hide

'Cause the words you run from are the ones inside

You have to listen you have to think

You can see oblivion when you're stood on the brink

Eyes wide, hand tied,

Hard drive, rewired,

Books ripped, and thrown into the night