Open Your Eyes

Margot & the Nuclear So and So's

I've wasted time following the rules and
Staying in the lines of what I thought was living
And I've found myself standing at the edge
And proudly turned away thinking I was winning
But tell me fear what have I gained from listening to your lies
Let me be, just this once I wanna feel the fire inside
I don't wanna go back
I don't wanna go back
I don't wanna go back to the way that it was before this
Life in technicolor
Now that future is the past and
Everything I feared turned to beauty
And all the pain that led me here, turns out
It was a gift sent to heal me
So tell me fear what have I gained from listening to your lies
Let me be, from now on I wanna feel the fire inside
I don't wanna go back
I don't wanna go back
I don't wanna go back to the way that it was before this
Life in technicolor
I don't wanna go back
I don't wanna go back
I don't wanna go back to the way that it was before this
Life in technicolor
Open up your eyes
Breathe it in
Let it fill you
Take your breath away
Light the night sky
Within you
I don't wanna go back to the way that it was before this
Life in technicolor


Lyrics submitted by charcoalsketch, edited by Ekdikos, alcool91

Technicolor (Open Up Your Eyes) Lyrics as written by Margot Osborne

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    and thursday was harder to take with these pills piled high on my plate, so i swallow each one in a haze. in a cascade of light, i was saved.

    Those lines just kill me. He justs sounds like he's so tired of being saved from death when his life is just so much worse.

    It's one of those heart wrenching songs that just makes you teary eyed.

    fawnzyon November 19, 2008   Link

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