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Stare at the lights, monitor in my ear, we comin' alive

Early festival sets, a quarter to nine

Thousand people and they all aligned

Stage manager told us it's time (And we told 'em we ready)

Security like they on alert

Stagehands doin' all of the work

It all stops with the pull of the

Curtains, what I do at the begin of my shows

As I open my eyes, hope I'm overwhelmed with fear

Hope I feel it rush through me with the people all near

But they not for me and the years I took 'em for granted

It was so easy to see how somethin' cold could be branded

People fake things beautiful in honoring pain

Somewhere along I let somethin' as dull as numb gain

There's no shinin' at all, so it's more dim than livid

It's more than a show, don't know where, I had missed it

Some people grow cold as they stay around

It can belie how we started and strike us down

That's imagine this organ with holes

How could one play the song that was told from those souls

While the beacons glow so still strong and aware

How could someone else dare to ignore the despair

And focus, not care not to focus there mind

I learned through despair, first you grow through the fear

So I hope I'm alive as I peer past

Curtains openin', curtains openin'

Center stage while I'm th-thousan' people yellin'

But I feel it, feel not for me, austere

Guess it was revelin', guess it was revelin'

Someone in front of them told me

My whole life had never been whole see

This is a medicine, this is a medicine

Maybe, who knows but now maybe

Stare at the lights (the lights)

I feel so alive (alive)

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My faith walk up close, we had drew cards

See, that's face-to-face but with God, space, a facade

And see, my job, it keep the, the, the me and mine

Full stomachs, wheels in motion, I move smart (Gotta move smart)

And when I fail, they respond, then the tone change

Eyes watchin' me from afar

I don't respond to what they entertain (Nah)

Nah,

nah, stayin' in my zone,

Stare at the lights (the lights)

I feel so alive (alive)

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then, inevitably, the curtains close