Tired Eyes

from Love and Anxiety (Split with Pravda and the Truth Speakers) by Spobo & the Sing Alongs

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Turn off the lights, close the door
Protect your head from your troubles once more
Tell yourself that you’re alright
And you can make it through one more night
Now go to sleep.

Fighting to stay at peace ’til dawn
Tossing and turning but you know you must go on
These tired eyes won’t rest tonight
And faded memories can’t offer any light.

“It’s just a dream,” sometimes you say
but you can never seem to take the pain away
So remember me when you’re down and out
It seems we’ll all need someone else to lift us out:

When all you feel is someone else’s fame
Standing in the shadows, giving credit, taking blame
It only seems fair to stand up and proclaim:
“I’m not okay!”

The moon is out and full tonight
But at it’s biggest it’s still small amidst the sky
And just like you it must move on
It’s got a role it has to play before the sun
Comes in strong!

And there’s no crowd to see its race,
just another lonely guy finding his place.
Turn on the lights, close your eyes
Let it out while no one else can hear the cries.
“It’s just a dream,” I’ve heard them say,
but I bet that none of them have ever felt this way:

When all you see is someone else’s fame
Standing in the shadows, giving credit, taking blame
It only seems fair to stand up and proclaim:
“I’m not okay!”

You did your best,
And though you’re small
It seem you might just
Make a difference after-all.

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from Love and Anxiety (Split with Pravda and the Truth Speakers), released January 1, 2010

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