Inside (R-E) Lyrics

What you see outside

Old and callous

Slowly come and gone

Taking all day

And there in your way

What you can not know

Confused and lonesome

Protective and withdrawn

Productive years spent

Their usefulness at an end

And it hurts their heart

To be out of the circle of need

And they need to be loved

And you'd know it if you'd check to see

Inside

Inside

What is seen outside

Wheeled in a room

An unsightly disheveled mass

Hard to speak

With movements measured and weak

What you can not know

Sunken eyes that are keenly looking back

And their prayer

Is you see beyond their chair

And it hurts their heart

To be understood on such base degree

And they hope that you

Might stop and find out who they might be

Inside

Inside

They're out there among us with needs

And hopes that hold back despair

Crying out without words yet hoping beyond hope

That someone might care

What you see outside

The ugly man

That woman, large and subdued

Trying to be unseen

Targeted by an unkind teen

What you do not know

They question why they can not be like you

To go unchecked

To live with dignity and respect

And it hurts their heart

To be regarded with such low esteem

Their hidden beauty would shine

If you just get close enough to see

Inside

Inside

Inside

Inside

Inside