Look Away - The Dear Hunter

The need to quantitate has put center stage

Regret, remorse, regard

Crazed and calm with a sinners psalm

Memories lose their art.

So I

Circle thoughts with centered eyes

That stare without ever seeing

But it’s getting dim and just before any

Reasons can be revealed, I fall

And I don’t want to get up

Just leave me down here

Down where the truth won’t go

No, I don’t want to give up

Just dust me off and

I swear you’d never know

Oh, no

Look away

Shade your eyes

Don’t

Stop

Then there’s the simple fact

That I was born this way

In such a tout assimilation of mistakes

Don’t you misjudge what I’m capable of

If I’m heir to a broken will, I’ll fall

And I don’t want to get up

Just leave me down here

Down where the truth won’t go

No, I don’t want to give up

Just dust me off and

I swear you’d never know

Oh, Look away

Shade your eyes

Don’t

Stop

Leave the pain behind

Casting fear to the side

For just a moment so things can align

And if I fall, sometimes that’s just fine

As long as I get up, then things are alright

Oh no, don’t look away

Don’t shade your eyes

Don’t

Stop