Wide and Bright

Monday comes without a warning
Pocket change and early mornings
Broken lines of people crawling
Swarm ahead as leaves are falling

Meet the Joneses at the station
Daily site of mass migration
There's a spot for every drifter
Every word becomes a whisper

Moulded arches for seclusion
There is method in confusion
Yet it's only the beginning
For the masses time is ticking

So they occupy their places
Squalid buildings with no faces
They all gather up and find
Scraps of fortitude to grind

With eyes so wide and bright
And tears that fade and dry
I watch the world as people pass me by
With eyes so wide and bright
And tears that fade and dry
I watch the world as time is passing by

But one day's just like the other
Yearn for places they would rather
Vanish to because they're greener
Skies are blue the air is cleaner

So the cogs continue weaving
Hollow faith is self-deceiving
Taunted by those twenty days
Quickly ravaged in a haze

With eyes so wide and bright
And tears that fade and dry
I watch the world as people pass me by

With eyes so wide and bright
And tears that fade and dry
I watch the world as time is passing by

And when Monday morning comes
It's back to chasing crumbs
As I sit and watch the world go by
And when Monday morning comes
It's back to chasing crumbs
As I sit and watch the world go by

With eyes so wide and bright
And tears that fade and dry
I watch the world as time is passing by