Red Eyes

Switchfoot

What are you waiting for
The day is gone?
I said I'm waiting for dawn

What are you aiming for
Out here alone?
I said I'm aiming for home

Holding on, holding on


With red eyes
What are you looking for?
With red eyes
Red eyes

All of my days are spent
Within this skin
Within this cage that I'm in

Nowhere feels safe to me
Nowhere feels home
Even in crowds I'm alone

Holding on, I'm holding on

With red eyes
What are you looking for?
With red eyes
Red eyes
With red eyes
What are you looking for?
With red eyes
Red eyes

Every now and then I see you dreaming
Every now and then I see you cry
Every now and then I see you reaching
Reaching for the other side
(What are you waiting for?)
(What are you waiting for?)
What are you waiting for?

With red eyes
What are you looking for?
With red eyes
Red eyes
Your red eyes
What are you looking for?
With red eyes
Red eyes



(What are you waiting for?
What are you waiting for?
In this needle and haystack life
I found miracles there in your eyes
It's no accident we're here tonight
What are you waiting for? Waiting for?
We are once in a lifetime
Waiting for
We are once in a lifetime
Waiting for
Alive
We are once in a lifetime
Waiting)


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    wow thanks for posting this comment i dont know when Foreman made thist statement, but there's a lot of truth in those words they really sum up the entire Hello Hurricane album thanks again

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