i woke up one morning
with blood on my face,
i woke up and realized
this horrible place,
full of empty suffering,
struggle, and strife;
i woke up, asked myself
the point of my life;
i woke up from a dream
with one others may see
i woke up to a dream:
what our world could be,
so i ask you so nobly,
and ask you so kind,
for what you've been searching
please, open your mind.

open your mind to the stars up above,
and open your mind to the world that you love:
see the lies,
their designs;
open your eyes;
unveil to the world those beutiful hues:
unveil to the world your eyes, and you
the secret's important,
the secret is key,
it's what for you've been searching
but no secret there be.

breathe out and it clicks,
breathe in,
deep, deeper,
and wait
you can see:
you see the true world,
not as you want it to be:
more beautiful,
more savage,
more blatant,
and far, far more ravaged.

see the stars and the sky,
see for the first time
and wonder,
just wonder
how any man,
just a gun and a face,
how any man
could have conquered this place
and built houses and lights
and destroyed and forced flight;
this is what's left
the least fragile of life:
strongest species,
and brightest stars,
those walking with the deepest of scars.

just wonder,
the mind, it can wonder so far,
just wonder:
those higher up high
with money and power that reach to the sky,
why does any man need so much?
layers upon layers of laws upon laws,
intentions now lost from original qualms:
we stand the byproducts of a long confused system
with nothing to help us,
naught but our wisdom,
and one little gift
wrapped in ban upon ban;
they call it exception
to the freedom of man;
they know of its value:
what it helps us to see,
if we all see and act
then what will they be?

through happiness, horror
your mind will track,
as you open your lungs
there's no going back,
but there is a future:
the future of man;
when you opened your mind
your future began,
so share your new wisdom
with those young and old:
open their eyes to the future they hold,
and one day, perhaps far, far away
we won't need a gift to see
for reborn the world will have come to be.