Sweet Nothing (Behind The Eyes Suite)

Featured art by Cyril Rolando

Listen to Sweet Nothing by Richard Charles Stevens (Stars of the Night Remix)

Listen to In Their Eyes by Fortification 55

There exists a light behind the eyes
If only we can find the time to pay enlightened mind
See that which the naked eye declines to entertain
Demonstrate relentless stride to endless ventures gained
Take confession
Face the grate and state enough’s enough
Break convention’s tasteless chains and call erasure’s bluff
.
Find the voice most deep within
Listen to the skylark sing
Stay up to ungodly hour to watch the night owl do its thing
See the magic tragically unseen
That once so emphatically believed
(Breathe)
.
I have seen with keen
Believe that there exists a light behind our eyes
To prize as infinitely grand
(Breathe)
.
I have seen with keen
Believe that there exists a light behind our eyes
To prize as infinitely grand
(Breathe)
.
I have seen with keen
Believe that there exists a light behind our eyes
To prize as infinitely grand
(To prize as infinitely grand)
.
I believe that there exists a light behind our eyes
That shines to guide us to the tides of distant lands
(Breathe)
.
See the magic tragically unseen
That once so emphatically believed
.
See the magic tragically unseen
That once so emphatically believed
(Breathe)
.
See the magic tragically unseen
(Guide us to the tides of distant lands)
That once so emphatically believed
(Guide us to the tides of distant lands)
.
Be the magic valiantly freed
(Guide us to the tides of distant lands)
Raise your flag emphatically and breathe
.
There exists a light behind the eyes each time they weep
Rite of passage to high tide in sweep
Line of sight to endless seas sequentially perceived
Every time a teardrop be relieved
(Breathe)
If only we can find the time to pay enlightened mind
To everything sweet nothings misconceive
.
Something this way comes
Would be most wicked to defeat
The only friend the end dare not decree
Innermost potential is potentially obscene
Once we boast essential essence gleaned
From deep beneath the skin we shed
Each time our sweetest dreams be bled
In our beds
We’re readymade
For venturing where angels make it dangerously clear
They fear to tread
.
Would give both eyes to watch the sunrise in moonlit reprise
Ride each ebb and flow composed to prizing rhythmic rise
Go the distance time and time again
No questions posed
If only to see single soul repose deposed of blight
.
Sleep with one eye open
To keep vigil of the night
Be the lighthouse stood upon the rocky crag in plainest sight
Show the only part of me I held back for myself
Overrule the rule that states I’m owned by fading mental health
Hold the mic so tightly that I might just earn ovation
If nothing else for changeless dedication
.
There exists a light behind our eyes
To prize as infinitely grand
.
This is no vocation
This is everything I am
All of me endorsed to bleed each intravenous dam
This is every best laid plan I never got around to
This is why defiantly I stand
Here upon uneven ground
No fever dream be damned
For I have seen with keen
Believe that there exists a light behind our eyes
To prize as infinitely grand
(I have seen with keen
(Believe that there exists a light behind our eyes)
.
There exists a light behind the eyes
If only we can find the time to pay enlightened mind
(Breathe)
See that which the naked eye declines to entertain
Demonstrate relentless stride to endless ventures gained
Take confession
Face the grate and state enough’s enough
Break convention’s tastleless chains and call erasure’s bluff
(Breathe)
.
Find the voice most deep within
Listen to the skylark sing
Stay up to ungodly hour to watch the night owl do its thing
See the magic tragically unseen
That once so emphatically believed
.
I have seen with keen
Believe that there exists a light behind our eyes
To prize as infinitely grand
.
I have seen with keen
Believe that there exists a light behind our eyes
To prize as infinitely grand
.
I have seen with keen
Believe that there exists a light behind our eyes
To prize as infinitely grand
.
I believe that there exists a light behind our eyes
That shines to guide us to the tides of distant lands
.
See the magic tragically unseen
That once so emphatically believed
.
See the magic tragically unseen
That once so emphatically believed
.