Story Behind The Song

Healing from a violent attack fueled by ignorance after 9/11.

Song Description

Finding hope when one second (one event) changes how the world looks at you.

Lyrics

He wakes up in the morning
His eyes half shut today
He is halfway to work and he decides to try something different today
He walks into a coffee shop
He is half wet from the rain
Other halves from the past enter his mind
He is half wet from the rain
The waitress asks him if he is ok
He tells a story of how he lost himself halfway
He lost himself halfway

She takes a look into his eyes, and tells him
Everything is going to be alright
She takes one look and sees the life pouring out
From his eyes
And she says,

I don't know what the world has done to you
To make those tears cover the light in your eyes
To make you doubt everything that's true
To make you fear coming outside

Don't you see? I see you.

It's late at night
And he walks alone
He is halfway to his car and the sound of laughter trembles his bones
Suddenly a crash

The blade of a knife pressed against his flesh

He can only remember half of what happens that night
The officer told him everything's gonna be alright
As the life begins to pour from his eyes
He remembers how she said that

I don't know what the world has done to you
To make those tears cover the light in your eyes
To make you doubt everything that's true
And to make you fear coming outside

Don't you see? I see you.
I see you, don't you see.