Broken Eyes

Duration

3:49

Genres

Americana / Alt Country

Lyrics

There’s a little girl, no more than four Waitin’ by the window, watching the door She wants her daddy, but she can’t see him no more She’s looking through broken eyes A boy just turned 17, spends all his time alone Floats between two worlds, like a ghost in a battle zone He puts poison in his veins to kill the chill deep in his bones As tears fall from broken eyes Do we know what we’re doing? Can we measure the cost When we shatter the dream of a child In the heat of the battle Something precious is lost And we can’t get it back when the innocence dies In those broken eyes So the lawyers go to war with greed in their smiles Wearing 3-piece suits of armor, they’ll bleed everybody dry But the ones who suffer most are silent at the sidelines Staring through broken eyes When the roots are divided the family tree won’t grow And tomorrow’s gonna wither on the vine And the damage we’re doing runs deeper than we know ‘cause we can’t get it back when the innocence dies Do we know what we’re doing? Can we measure the cost? When we shatter the dream of a child In the heat of the battle something precious is lost And we can’t get it back when the innocence dies In those broken eyes