Keep Your Eyes Peeled

Queens of the Stone Age

Don't look, just keep your eyes peeled
Thoughtless, trapped in my minefield
Shotgun, never behind the wheel anymore
Danger, monsters of smoke and mirror
Slowly, can one so lost be found?

And I know, you will never believe
I play as though I'm alright
If life is but a dream, then
Wake me up

Fallen leaves realize they are no friend of autumn
The view from Hell is blue sky
So ominously blue
Daydream until all the blue is gone

And I know you'll never believe
I play as though I'm alright
If life is but a dream,
Wake me

Underwater is another life
Disregarding every myth we write
Rag doll churning
Eagerly alive

Big smile, really a show of teeth
Without a care in a world of fear
Lonely, you don't know how I feel
Praise God, nothing is as it seems


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Keep Your Eyes Peeled Lyrics as written by Josh Homme Dean Anthony Fertita

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    I think the key is in the line "I play this as though I'm all right." Josh Homme is, to the public, a suave hedonist. But this album sort of pulls away the curtain and you see his vulnerabilities.

    Crane42on June 09, 2013   Link

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