White Eyes

Living in the basement and losing my mind

Smoking mother nature until I go blind

And if you live long enough you're bound to see it all

For example, take the girlie apparition in my hall

Shaking her finger and looking at me,

But there's something not right about the way she sees

She got white eyes

She say everybody here gonna have white eyes...

She got white eyes

...unless

Under three pairs of glasses there's some glass, some glass, some glass

Now a week in the country is just what I need

It gets so quiet I can hear myself bleed

And there's a moon on the mountain

A wind through the trees

And I still couldn't tell you how that ghost girl sees

She seems to be committing an optical crime

She is a spectral spectacle looking at me all the time

With white eyes

She say everybody here gonna have white eyes...

She got white eyes

...When they die

And if you've got those baby blues, baby, get ready to kiss 'em goodbye.

Things are no longer what they seem

When her freight train picks up its head of steam

There's no clear line between death and dream and the ferocious haze of love.

Now the gates are swinging open

And I'm coming through

And I can hear the choir start singing their tune

As I take my last steps toward that guiding light

I can hear that ghost laughing as my eyeballs turn white

I got white eyes

I say everybody here gonna have white eyes...

I got white eyes

...like me

It ain't until you lose your sight that you know just what it means to see.