What I See

 

Behind his eyes a wanting well

I know it’s fathoms down

No tossing in the pennies

It’s where his dreams all go to drown

 

There’s restlessness, there’s hunger

Building rafts beside the sea

But there’s no place that he can go

Where he won’t be who he will be

 

It’s what I see

It’s what I see

It’s what I see

It’s what I see

 

Encyclopedia of questions

No answers he can read

Wakes up in the morning

Hung by his ankle from a tree

 

It’s what I see

It’s what I see

It’s what I see

It’s what I see

 

Blindness in the turning out, vision in the turning in

Open up your eyes, see the dance floor on the pin

Every time you look at me, that’s where we will begin

And I still want to be with what I see

 

With what I see

With what I see

With what I see

With what I see

 

You got to live a life

Where you can take it on the chin

You got to write the rules

So you know just when you win

 

It’s what I see

It’s what I see

It’s what I see

It’s what I see

 

Blindness in the turning out, vision in the turning in

Open up your eyes, see the dance floor on the pin

Every time you look at me, that’s where we will begin

And I still want to be with what I see

 

With what I see

With what I see

With what I see

With what I see

 

2008