As we open our eyes Lyrics

As the day disappears and slowly gives way to the night

Our youth is slipping away try as we might

To hold back the years even though we all know that's one fight

That we're all bound to lose rich and poor we all share the same plight

Yes, the apple is ripe but the lingering taste isn't sweet

If we fix on the fact that our time on this earth is so fleet

Even more if we choose to believe we're just matter and meat

And see the end that we all face as some kind of defeat

There were days so sad and full of doubt

Seemed the only choice was to just drop out

Like you were well and truly stuck

On an existential roundabout

Cursed all fates and the day you were born

Imagined a future so forlorn

Somehow by chance you realised

It was you who chose to close your heart and eyes

And you don't understand

You closed your heart and your eyes

It was never planned

But somehow you knew you just had to run and hide

Locked all the doors and got stuck inside

But you grew so tired of certainty

You grew so tired

Wondered if there was more that you could be

Remembered a world that you wanted to see

Dared to dream improbable dreams

You could be free

Yeah yeah

Life is in fact a great mystery and not always kind

But hardly as cruel as the traps we create in our minds

Ones we all learned early with effort we may leave behind

Reclaim the gift of sight no matter how long we've been blind

This world is a beautiful place and that's no surprise

When we stand in a tropical paradise watching sunrise

But perhaps every moment mundane may hide some great prize

If we open our minds and our hearts as we open our eyes

Yes, it is easy to open our eyes

To the radiant rays of a splendid sunrise

To take in the beauty, the power of light

That speaks of the day as it conquers the night

Most of us seek to avert that keen gaze

From inexorable dark at the end of our days

But embracing that fact can perhaps make us wise

Helps us open our hearts and our minds

As we open our eyes