Telescope

Album: Melophobia (2013)
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  • In a far and distant galaxy
    Inside my telescope, I see
    Pair of eyes peer back at me
    He walks and talks and looks like me
    Sits around inside his house
    From room to room, he moves about
    Fills his life with pointless things
    And wonders how it all turns out

    Do-do-do-do, do
    Do-do-do-do, do
    It's safe to say that

    I don't think you understand
    There's nowhere left to turn
    The walls keep breakin'
    Time is like a leaf in the wind
    Either it's time well spent
    Or time I've wasted
    Don't waste it

    Afraid of what the truth might bring
    He locks his doors and never leaves
    Desperately searching for signs
    Too terrified to find a thing
    He battens all the hatches down
    And wonders why he hears no sounds
    Frantically searching his dreams
    He wonders what it's all about

    Do-do-do-do, do
    Do-do-do-do, do
    It's safe to say that

    I don't think you understand
    There's nowhere left to turn
    The walls keep breakin'
    Time is like a leaf in the wind
    Either it's time well spent
    Or time I've wasted

    Here in my mind, losin' my friends
    Fall on my face, do it again
    You say, "How do you do?"
    Man, how 'bout you? Man, how 'bout you?
    To be free, to be sold
    To be killed, to be safe
    In my head, I'm alone
    I'm not dead, I'm ashamed
    Just like you, I've been trying to escape
    In my bones, I feel cold
    I give thanks to the Lord
    Industry, in the street
    Let me go, let me be
    I don't need to be here
    I'm alone, can't you see? Can't you see?

    I don't think you understand
    There's nowhere left to turn
    These walls keep breakin'
    Time is like a leaf in the wind
    Either it's time well spent
    Or time I've wasted
    Don't waste it Writer/s: Daniel Andrew Tichenor, Donald Bradley Shultz, Jared Lloyd Champion, Lincoln Parish, Matthew Ray Shultz
    Publisher: 4U2ASKY ENTERTAINMENT INC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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