Button Eyes
Unraveling Despair: Button Eyes by Jiovanni Daniel
Lyrics
You revealed me stitch by stitch yet im the violent one
You gradually revealed my flaws, yet I am the one prone to violence.
I played your board games and joined your tea party
I participated in your social constructs and conformities.
Im a drunken fool I guess i failed you too
I am intoxicated and foolish, feeling like I have disappointed you.
Put me on the shelf to rot in some sort of hell
You abandoned me, leaving me to deteriorate in a metaphorical hell.
I spy with my little eye a boy in the corner who cries in the night
I observe a boy in the corner, crying at night, struggling to find success.
Who just cant seem to get it right
This boy continually faces challenges and failures.
Hide away the tears that roll down his face
He hides his tears, trying to cope with his emotions.
Need some time to see this light with his little button eyes
He needs time to find clarity, viewing the world through innocent "button eyes."
Eighteen years with shut in doors the voices he cant ignore
For eighteen years, he has been confined indoors, unable to ignore inner voices.
Words are either a blessing or a tragedy
Words can either bring joy or cause deep suffering.
Broken porcelain dolls opened packets of menthols
There are broken things, like porcelain dolls and opened cigarette packets.
Ahh ahhh
(Refrain)
I spy with my little eye those lines on your skin seeking help within
I notice scars on your skin, indicative of seeking help from within.
Cause mom and dad are blind
Parents are oblivious to the boy's struggles.
Cut away the threads that hold his skin in place
He needs to break free from the constraints that bind him.
Seeing worlds in black and white through his little button eyes
He sees the world in simplistic terms through his innocent "button eyes."
If you see him sitting there it means that hes been packaged and
If you see him sitting there, it means he has been discarded and abandoned.
Thrown away him and the earth are like oil and water
The boy and the earth are incompatible, always separating like oil and water.
They always separate
This separation is inevitable.
Cause we spy with our eye a boy turned to rust oh shame on us
We notice a boy turning to rust, and we are to blame for allowing this to happen.
Cause we let him get that
We bear responsibility for his deterioration.
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