Open Your Eyes

Intro

They always tell me, "Open your eyes"

Like I don't already know what the world's like

Funny thing is, I can barely see sometimes

But somehow I still see more than you

Hook

I'm legally blind, still I see more shit than you

How you got two working eyes and still don't see the truth?

Everybody telling me to open up my eyes

I can't see the whole picture, but I still see the signs

I'm legally blind, still I see more shit than you

Look around for one damn second, tell me what you gonna do?

If I can see the world is falling right in front of us

Then maybe we ain't losing sight, maybe we just lost our trust

Verse 1

I learned to read the world without seeing every detail

Learned to recognize the feeling when something doesn't feel well

People tell me I'm impaired like that means I don't understand

But vision isn't everything, perception's in the way you stand

I see people getting judged before they open up their mouth

I see everybody screaming but nobody hearing out

I see people picking sides before they know what they're defending

Then they wonder why the world keeps breaking at the edges

I see families falling apart, people struggling to cope

People trying to find a reason just to hold onto some hope

Everybody got an opinion, everybody's got a side

But sometimes being human means admitting you don't know why

And I don't claim to have the answers

I don't claim that I'm right

I just know what I feel when I look around at night

There's too much pain to pretend everything's okay

And too many people looking somewhere else when they look away

Pre-Hook

So don't tell me I don't see

Don't tell me I don't know

I've been learning how to navigate

A world that doesn't slow

You got perfect vision

So tell me what you see

'Cause from where I'm standing

It looks like we're forgetting how to be

Hook

I'm legally blind, still I see more shit than you

How you got two working eyes and still don't see the truth?

Everybody telling me to open up my eyes

I can't see the whole picture, but I still see the signs

I'm legally blind, still I see more shit than you

Look around for one damn second, tell me what you gonna do?

If I can see the world is falling right in front of us

Then maybe we ain't losing sight, maybe we just lost our trust

Verse 2

I see kids growing up afraid of what tomorrow brings

I see people turning every little difference into teams

I see arguments become identities, identities become war

Everybody wants to win, nobody asks what winning's for

I see people getting tired of being told to just move on

I see people hiding everything until they can't hold on

I see loneliness behind the pictures everybody posts

You can have a thousand people around you and still feel alone

I see the pressure, I see anger, I see people losing faith

I see somebody asking for help and getting told to just be brave

I see people talking about change while they're scared to change themselves

It's easier to blame another person than to look at who you are

And yeah, sometimes I get angry

Sometimes I don't know what to say

Sometimes I wanna scream until the whole room shakes

But I'm still here, still looking

Even when the picture's blurred

Because having limited vision

Doesn't mean I haven't heard

Bridge

Maybe blindness isn't always in the eyes

Maybe it's pretending you don't see

Maybe it's knowing something's wrong

And choosing not to believe

Maybe it's watching somebody hurt

And deciding it's not your fight

Maybe it's having every reason to care

And still choosing to look aside

So if I can see it

With everything I can't see

Then what the hell is stopping you

From seeing what I see?

Hook

I'm legally blind, still I see more shit than you

How you got two working eyes and still don't see the truth?

Everybody telling me to open up my eyes

I can't see the whole picture, but I still see the signs

I'm legally blind, still I see more shit than you

Look around for one damn second, tell me what you gonna do?

If I can see the world is falling right in front of us

Then maybe we ain't losing sight, maybe we just lost our trust

Outro

Don't tell me to open my eyes

I've been trying my whole life

Maybe you should open yours

I'm legally blind

And I still see it