Open Up Lyrics

First the suffering for a love I could never show

Next the drugs adding blood to the groans

Coming third was the pain inside the soul

Burning love inside the void

Cracking up and churning weeks and years intoxicated

I'll open and know the empty feeling of your soul

Come on and give me a laugh, as long as you live there's something worth the laughter

(I'll open, the darkness, the forest, the madness)

I found solace in my family and in nature

(The orchids, the acid, the essence, the panic)

I found solace in the vastness that contained them

(The calmness, the clamour, the grieving, the attic)

Oh, I never seem to know, why the patience seems to try and break me for the first time

And if all of the cosmic truths could turn my croonings to the grandstands

Fortunate you're not the one that listens

Not the one that contemplates the foreshadow overbearing that curbs the crisis times, the drying tides

The concentrated hate that makes the mothers cry and the martyrs die

Holding out for another life, a new design, a change of scene

Anything that can take them far away

Where they'll be recognised, validated and reconciled