Kareem Manuel - Open Your Eyes (feat. Plumb)

I feel like I'm screaming at the wall
Are you there for me?
Playing my favorite songs
all day long is
no longer therapy,
Apparently,
you were done parenting,
So I stopped caring then eventually
I stopped sharing me,
Now I wander and try to be stronger than this death,
A small fish jumped out the pond and lost his breath,
I was rooted in truth,
but now, after what all that I've been through,
I’m afraid bitter fruit is all that's left,
Every glance is an attack,
every ask is masked stab aiming at my back
So I leave them alone so I don't have to lay ‘em flat,
As soon as problems came along it's like I fell off the map,
And stopped getting calls and friends that were on the path turned they backs
The world say the sky is the limit so aim for that,
Reaching up and not out got my lifeline going flat,
Sin City, where I was living, I ain't going back,
But the light at the end of the tunnel is going black.

(Chorus)
Open up your eyes, you are not alone,
Don’t believe the lie, it’s poison to your soul.
Open up your eyes, you are not alone,
I won’t let you go, I won’t let you go.

And there’s no use in pretending,
I'm not sure I still feel conviction,
In this village of large dreams and loose women,
When it seems that every lie has a degree of truth in it
And everyone that dies, I know you did it,
or at least allowed it to,
Every disaster, every murderer, every false pastor, plays a part in the larger story that you crafted
But when it's my family members dying without knowing You,
And I tried every single thing that I know to do,
But then I go to you, crying out but all I hear is... Are you hearing this?
Or are you here for this, or do you disappear in bad predicaments,
Is the life I'm seeking leading to death like Gilgamesh?
Are you the messiah or do we wait for another?
And I hate myself for asking but, Lord, do You love me?
If you do why’d You take your presence from me,
Why do I pray and pray but I keep hearing nothing?

(Chorus)

You can put me in the storm to conform me to your image,
Have me look in troubled waters so my reflection is diminished,
Help me watch my mouth like sitting at the dentist,
Just let me look up and see you so my faith is replenished,
If you tell me walk on water then I'm out the boat I'm in it,
Just don't leave me alone give me hope to reach the finish,
See, the end goal is to join at the close or the ending,
But this prison of time is a life sentence,
And its easy in my mind to get lost, Lord, keep me cross centered,
Walking the plains of contentment, I only got injured,
I had the Psalmist play a lament to try and stop the bitterness
From clutching me with his fist but now I need to repent,
I didn't believe Matthew when he wrote me that You are with us,
And eating my food for thought is some cold dinner,
I should have a grabbed the bread life, I need forgiveness,
Please forgive me, please forgive me.