Lyrics

Eyes (08/10/16),
Roy Hardinge, copyright 2018
You’ve had a tough life, that you’ve been carryin’ ‘round
You’ve seen some things that I don’t want to think about
You can’t forget those things, they just get in the way
And in reality they’re with you every day

You’re not what you were back when
That person’s gone and you can’t make him come alive
You’re just livin’ with those lies
I can see it in your eyes

It hits me now and then how alone a man can be
…a trail of tears through all his years, constantly
Then again, I find there’s power in our love
and even more so, with guidance from above.

You’re not what you were back when
That person’s gone and you can’t make him come alive
You’re just livin’ with those lies
I can see it in your eyes

The old man sits in his torn lawn chair,
listening to the radio
Night after night it’s the same lawn chair,
no place he’d rather go.
Too late now, so many regrets…
What more is there to lose?
Cigarettes, and cans of beer…
the company he’ll choose…

Put all my sorrows into many a tiny space
You’ll find as many a space as wrinkles on my face
I’ve had my dreams, with hope they’d finalize
Not one of them’s come true, time’s vision has closed eyes

I’m not what I was back when
That person’s gone and I can’t make him come alive
I’m just livin’ with those lies
You can see it in my eyes