Shine

SHINE

I guess I never took the time to see, the truth that lay inside,
Those times I let myself get close to you, a part of me would hide.
Too many gazes I’ve caught by surprise reflected in the glass.
They cried out pleading for redemption and a way to change the past.

And every day we shared was haunted by a sorrow in your eyes,
You hid your tears behind bravado, like a melancholy bride,
I chose to drown you in expectancy, what I was told should be.
You were forsaken at your fated alter far too frequently.

And somewhere down the road ahead, I heard you cry to me.
Somewhere down the road where I was far too scared to see.

Yeah, there’s a part of you that lives and yearns to shine.
Yeah, go and take that chance, the days are slipping by.

Go ahead and shine.

Our dreams will drift and fly like angels that we sense but cannot see.
Some hover out in our periphery. Some beg on bended knee,
But those that linger feed desires that dwell deep inside our heads,
Pervade and permeate our consciousness and creep into our beds.

The voice resounding in our hearts when we were green and young,
Too often lies abandoned when into the world we’re flung.

You may find yourself with all you wanted but nothing that you need.
Each moment offers up another chance to shape what’s yet to be.