Open Your Eyes

As I walk along these streets
I see a man that walks alone
Distant echo of people's feet
He has no place to call his own
A shot rings out from a roof overhead
A crackhead asks for change nearby
An old man lies in an alleyway dead
A little girl lost just stands there and cries

What would you do, if it was you
Would you take everything
For granted like you do

A boy just 13 on the corner for sale
Swallows his pride for another hit
Overpopulation there's no room in jail
But most of you don't give a sh*t
That your daughters are porno stars
And your sons sell death to kids
You're so lost in your little worlds
Your little worlds you'll never fix

What would you do, if it was you
Would you take everything
For granted like you do

You turn away
As I walk along the streets
Soaking up the acid rain
Underneath the taxi cabs
I hear the streets cry out in vain

Fade
I try to breathe
Memories overtaking me
I try to face them but
The thought is too
Much to conceive

I only know that I can change
Everything else just stays the same
So now I step out of the darkness
That my life became 'cause

I just needed someone to talk to 
You were just too busy with yourself
You were never there for me to
Express how I felt
I just stuffed it down
Now I'm older and I feel like
I could let some of this anger fade
But it seems the surface
I am scratching
Is the bed that I have made

So where were you
When all this I was going through
You never took the time to ask me 
Just what you could do


Fade
I just need this to be all right
I can't feel this another night

I can't take this I come unglued
I might breakdown in front of you
Necessary to medicate
I'm not sleeping, can't stay awake

Can't see through this
Too much pressure
Drowning in this

Too much pressure
If you need me I'll be here
Half unconscious to escape my fear

My head hurts this sh*t isn't getting me high
My chest is so tight I think I am going to die
My stomach's in knots and the room starts to spin
As I wait for this valium to slowly kick in

It's Been Awhile Lyrics

It's been awhile 
Since I could hold my head up high
And it's been awhile
Since I first saw you
And it's been awhile
Since I could stand on my own two feet again
And it's been awhile
Since I could call you

And everything I can't remember
As f*cked up as it all may seem
And consequences that are rendered
I stretched myself beyond my means

And it's been awhile
Since I could say that I wasn't addicted 
And it's been awhile
Since I could say I loved my self as well
And it's been awhile
Since I've gone and f*cked things up just like I always do
And it's been awhile
But all that sh*t seems to disappear when I'm with you

And everything I can't remember
As f*cked up as it all may seem
And consequences that are rendered
I've gone and f*cked things up again

Yeah....

Why must I feel this way?
Just make this go away
Just one more peaceful day

And it's been awhile
Since I could look at myself straight
And it's been awhile
Since I've said I'm sorry
And it's been awhile
Since I've seen the way the candles light your face
And it's been awhile
But I can still remember just the way you taste

And everything I can't remember
As f*cked up as it all my seem
I know it's me
I cannot blame this on my father
He did the best he could for me

And it's been awhile
Since I could hold my head up high
And it's been awhile
Since I've said I'm sorry

Change
If ever you had said to me before
That I would live this life that I am
Living now I guess it's all so strange
To feel the way I do inside but
Have so much that I could feel some
Pride for in my life so why is it that
I feel like this

How do I feel? I've been here before,
I've felt this
Retreat to a place, a place within me
I need this. Keep it all down, bottled inside
It breaks me to torment again and 
Torture me like it used to

I try and try to break away from all the hate
I'm feeling for everyone of you that's ever
Done me wrong. I need to justify the reasons
For the way I'm living. I guess I can't cause
I don't feel like I deserve it

So now the waves they have subsided
And my soul is bleeding I can't take away
The shame I feel, forgive me

Can't Believe
Respect, respect, what is found
Respect should abound 
Respect everything that you leave
I can't believe
Can't believe
And I, I can't believe
I can't believe all the travesty
Surround me, I , I want to flee
I want to flee from everything
In front of me I
Can't believe
Never again, trusted in you
F*ck everything that you think I should be
I stand, never again, never again
Can't Believe

Epiphany
Your words to me just a whisper
Your Faces so unclear
I ry to pay attention
Your words just disappear
Cuz it's always raining in my head
Forget all the things I should have said
So I speak to you in riddles because
My words get in my way
I smoke the whole thing to my head
And feel it wash away
Cuz I can't take anymore of this
I want to come apart
Or dig myself a little hole inside your precious heart
Cuz it's always raining in my head
Forget all the things I should have said
I am nothing more than a little boy inside
That cries out for attention
Though I always try to hide
And I talk to you like children
But I don't know how I feel
But I know I'll do the right thing 
If the right thing is revealed
But it's always raining in my head
Forget all the things I should have said

Suffer
The more you see the more you do
The television's feeding you
Write what you want to hear, anger and fear
Because you suffer 
The hate you feel won't go away
You're all programmed to feel this way
To live another day withing a world
That loves to suffer
And then I come to find everything's okay
Seen this all before, but that was yesterday
Try to walk right through the messes that I've made
Just let me enjoy the life here that I've made
I tried to give it all to you
Can't take anymore to do with this, it hurts inside
I know why I hide
Cuz I suffer
I tried to keep it all inside
Didn't leave me too much pride
Forced it all down
Inside forced myself to make me suffer
And then I come to find...
And then I come to find...

Safe Place
Another day
Inside my world
I'm married to you and this road
A road that never lets me sleep
So there's no way to escape the demons
I am forced to keep
And then I find you here
Through your eyes
Everything's clear
And I'm home
Inside your arms
But I'm alone for now
I mean the best with what I say
It doesn't always sound that way 
I never learned to 
Work things out cause in my family all we ever seem to do
Is scream and shout

But then I find you here

Through your eyes
Everything's clear
And I'm home
Inside your arms
But I'm alone for now
And when I try to sleep 
The drugs I take
Are killing me - I think of you
To ease my pain but you're so far
Now it's time to say goodbye
I love you baby, please don't cry
Cuz then I'll find you here
Through your eyes everything's clear
And I'm home inside your arms but I'm alone for now

For You
To my mother, to my father
It's your son or it's your daughter
Are my screams loud enough for you to hear me?
Should I turn it up for you?
I sit here locked inside my head
Remembering everything you've said
This silence gets us nowhere!
Gets us nowhere way too fast!
The slience is what kils me
I need someone to help
But you don't know how to listen
And let me make my decisions
Cuz I sit here locked inside my head
Remembering everything you've said
The silence gets us nowhere!
Gets us nowhere way too fast!
All your insults and your curses
Make me feel like I'm not a person
And I feel like I'm nothing
But you made me, so do something
Because I'm f*cked up cuz you are
Need attention, attention you couldn't give
I sit here locked inside my head
Remembering everything you've said
The silence gets us nowhere!
Gets us nowhere way too fast!

Outside
And you, bring me to my knees
Again 
All the times, ,
I had to beg you please
In vain
All the times 
That I felt insecure
For you And I leave my
Burdens at the door
But I'm on the outside
I'm looking in
I can see through you 
See your true colors
Cuz inside you're ugly
You're ugly like me
I can see through you
See to the real you
All the times that I felt
Like this won't end
Was for you
And I taste what I could 
Never have
it's from you
All the times that I've 
Tried, my intentions
Full of pride
But I waste more time
Than anyone
All the times that
I've tried,
All this wasted,
It's all inside
And I feel all this
Pain, stuffed it down
It's back again and
I lie here in bed
All alone, I can't mend
But I feel
Tomorrow will be okay

Waste
Your mother came up to me
She wanted answers only she should know
Only she should know
It wasn't easy to deal
With the tears that rolled down her face
I had no answers cuz I didn't even know you
But these words..they can't replace
The life you, the life you waste
How could you paint this picutre?
Was life as bad as it should seem
That there were kno more options for you?
I can't explain how I feel
I've been there many times before
I've tasted the cold steel of my life
Crashing down before me
But these words
They can't replace
The life you, the life you waste
Did daddy not love you?
Or did he love you just too much?
did he control you?
did he live through you at your cost?
Did he leave no questions for you to answer on your own?
Well f*ck them, and f*ck her, and f*ck him,
And f*ck you
For not having the strength in your heart to pull through
I've had doubts, I have failed
I've f*cked up, I've had plans
Doesn't mean I should take my life with my own hands
But these words, they don't replace
The life you waste

Take It
I feel like this won't go away
No matter how hard I try to
Squeeze my eyes shut so I can't see
The pain in you this pain in me - in me
But everything that I can
Say to you won't help you
Everything you need is right 
In front of you - just take it
I know that I am really not here
To represent what I am not clear
About in my head sometimes I feel
F*cked up just like you do - like you do
Try to make it through the daily pain that you feel
Maybe tomorrow won't be so bad
I know it cuz I once felt 
That way nothing could say
Made it go away I lived through this
I still feel this I just live for my tomorrow
Just make it go away - she makes it go away

Staind
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