The Cave

studying the world that's in front of me
trying to find the meaning that's underneath
can only see what the other people see
seems like we always got the need
to keep repeating "seeing is believing"
what if what you're seeing is even more misleading
in between perceiving and meaning
is the ego that filters out things we disagree with
maybe I'm scratching the surface
interpreting shadows cast from a world
going past chasing after some purpose
without a path out I'll have to be first

you got to take some chances
you've drawn so many lines
you got all of the answers
"maybe some are right"
you got to know there's more
you gotta calm ya pride
you got that open door
"let's see what we can find"

i've been waiting for the morning sky
in the dark my fire was my only light
shadows dancing on my walls inside
of a world that passed me by, until tonight

come on with me, see the sun
even if you think there's none
it may seem crazy
to almost everyone
and I know I know I
gotta go I go I
leave the cave behind

stepping out of the prison that I've been in
since I entered in the world as an infant(go!)
never did it hit me that all I knew was empty
without all of the layers and dimensions (whoa!)
so much beauty in the nuance
you watch simplicity disappear like the dew drops
In the morning sun, and the truth often
is at the extremes in a few lost
souls, where censorship isn't
so the light of conventional wisdom
is bent like a prism sending it splintering into an
infinite sense of vision

you got to take some chances
you've drawn so many lines
you got all of the answers
"maybe some are right"
you got to know there's more
you gotta calm ya pride
you got that open door
"let's see what we can find"

i've been waiting for the morning sky
in the dark my fire was my only light
shadows dancing on my walls inside
of a world that passed me by, until tonight

come on with me, see the sun
even if you think there's none
it may seem crazy
to almost everyone
and I know I know I
gotta go I go I
leave the cave behind

want to go back to explain that this
amazing world beyond that cave exists
when you point out the chains and show the mistakes
they look at you like you're dangerous
it's hard to transcend the conflict
when it seems your identity is dependent on it
I can't really judge that hard
my escape from the cave is just getting started

i've been waiting for the morning sky
in the dark my fire was my only light
shadows dancing on my walls inside
of a world that passed me by, until tonight

come on with me, see the sun
even if you think there's none
it may seem crazy
to almost everyone
and I know I know I
gotta go I go I
leave the cave behind