Open Your Eyes - Rapture Ruckus

Sweet sixteen with big dreams

As beautiful as a beauty queen

World at her fingertips it would seem

But another world lived that goes unseen

Behind the darkness and behind the screens

The echoing of her silent screams

Tear drops forward rain down like streams

She buries her face up in a magazine

She can’t believe this is happening

She gave everything that she had to him

When she told him she was having his kid

He turned his back and ran away and hid

And now she’s got nowhere to go

Daddy walked out on her years ago

So I guess that’s how things go

In a world where nobody knows

Now daddy’s all alone

And he’s too proud to pick up the phone

Sitting in his arm chair on his own

Drinking and smoking his heart to stone

Reminiscing on the days of old

He built a house he couldn’t build a home

He built four walls round a heart of stone

Now he’s slipping to the back of the blackest hole

Open your eyes and dream

Open your eyes and believe

Open your eyes and dream

Open your eyes and believe

Across the globe to a dusty road

Where a little boy sits all alone

He’s far from home walked through night

Searching for a ray of light

A spark of hope and glimpse of chance

As he holds up both his hand

He lifts them high up to the sky

And as he cries he asks out why

Mom and dad both died of AIDS

He’s nine years old with two kids to raise

He’s got no time to play

Hasn’t had food since yesterday

And as his life just slips away

Again he prays for just one more day

Prays his fears away

Please God wipe my tears away

Open your eyes and dream

Open your eyes and believe

Open your eyes and dream

Open your eyes and believe

You wanna be in a place where you feel like you can call home

Somewhere there is no hatred, no wrong doing, no harm

Confess I live my life to the fullest, no stopping me

Even if my past tries to break me down, I’m breaking free

Oh you gotta fight for your destiny

Let go of all your doubts and your disbelief

Today is your pursuit of happiness, so please don’t rest

Open your eyes and see, and you will find you’re free

Open your eyes and dream

Open your eyes and believe

Open your eyes and dream

Open your eyes and believe