Open Air

A voice out in the distance

The whistle of a signal on the waves

A lifetime in an instant

Flowers bloom upon untended graves

The spinning of the engines

The clatter of the wheels upon the tracks

A twist in all the endings

The price to pay for seeing through the cracks

Breathe in...

I want to breathe the open air

I want to see the world out there

And run

To leave the tunnels of the mind

I want to breathe the open air

To shed the mask I’ve had to wear

And run

To leave the depths and dark behind

Free, unconfined

The changing of the seasons

The colours of the vast and endless sky

The scorching and the freezing

The comfort of a soothing lullaby

I want to breathe the open air

I want to see the world out there

And run

To leave the tunnels of the mind

I want to breathe the open air

To shed the mask I’ve had to wear

And run

To leave the depths and dark behind

Free, unconfined

And the future’s a railroad stretching endlessly

All our hopes keep rolling on the track

As the shadows of home become a memory

They will haunt us but they can’t pull us back

Breathe in

I watch the sun rise

In skies so clear

We learn the outside

There’s hope out here

I want to breathe the open air

I want to see the world out there

And run

To leave the tunnels of the mind

I want to breathe the open air

To shed the mask I’ve had to wear

And run

To leave the depths and dark behind

Free, unconfined

I watch the sun rise

In skies so clear

We learn the outside

There’s hope out here

Free, unconfined