Close My Eyes

if i could just close my eyes ~ see just what i wanted to see ~ it would be much easier to live this life ~ thinking that it never really comes down to me ~ sometimes i wanna close my eyes ~ so i can't see time while it's slipping away ~ we're all walking a very fine line ~ until reality is somehow thrown in our face ~ bury it deep and maybe you won't feel the pain ~ but you can't let it go ~ down the line it will be back again ~

if we could all close our eyes ~ to all the things we know that are wrong ~ we could live selfishly protected lives ~ not even thinking about what we could have done ~ say it's not there and maybe it will go away ~ but the truth is it won't ~ down the line it will be back again ~ and rather than examine it ~ i think i better handle it ~ what good it is to close my eyes ~ or tell myself another lie ~ gotta get along somehow and sometimes ~ it's easier ~

sometimes i have to close my eyes ~ and let you think you can make a fool out of me ~ but i set myself up each time ~ by trusting you so openly ~ but that's the way i wanna be, that's the way ~ i wanna be...