Ghost Eyes

I hear there’s a treasure 

hidden far out of sight 

where no one remembers 

because the X fades in time 

In the beginning,

there were searches world round 

but now crumbled ruins 

are all that’s left of this town. 

So I may be mistaken 

but I realized when I saw your light,

they never had it right. 

Ghost eyes 

Come and let ask you why 

I just want to listen and try

to bring you back to life. 

It’s just human nature 

to seek, to fill a void. 

A trail of destruction 

tells the path that we’ve forged. 

And we’re all just searching 

for an answer to validate our minds. 

And we’ve left you behind. 

Ghost eyes 

Come and let ask you why 

I just want to listen and try

to bring you back to life,

Ghost eyes. 

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I was in the middle of putting together a bookshelf when I started listening to my three year old play. She has an amazing vocabulary and comes up with some extraordinary scenarios in her pretend play. I pulled up my notes app and wrote this song as she played. The italicized words are actual words she spoke while playing. I asked her, “what are ghost eyes?” She showed me one of her “My Little Ponies” that had been left out in the sun. The paint was faded and washed out. “She has ghost eyes because she’s sad. She got left behind.”