The Eye Saw Everything - Ayoa & Kaelo - Bennie Mellies

[Verse 1 — female - Ayoa] The path gave way beneath our feet We fell still holding hands Into a sea as black as ink That breathed instead of drowned us Then one by one, the eyes awoke No eyelids, no disguise A current pulled us through a door Into a city under tides [Pre-Chorus — male - Kaelo] Mi can hold your hand through darkness I can follow where it goes But I cannot look inside for you Only you can face what shows [Chorus — Ayoa, Kaelo harmonies] The eye saw everything Every truth beneath my skin Every time I turned from loving Before love could enter in The eye saw everything Every life I’m brave enough to be You could bring me to the doorway But the looking had to come from me [Verse 2 — female - Ayoa] The walls sang with my mother’s tune My name was cut in stone A village, sickness, empty boats The years I carried home The compass I had called a gift Was taken long ago I said, “I’m not who you imagined” You said, “Then there is more to know” [Pre-Chorus — male - Kaelo] Mi never asked for perfect answers Or a past made clean and new If the story changes shape tonight There is more to learn of you [Chorus — Ayoa & Kaelo] The eye saw everything Every truth beneath my skin Every time I turned from loving Before love could enter in The eye saw everything Every life I’m brave enough to be You could bring me to the doorway But the looking had to come from me [Bridge — female - Ayoa] It showed the child, the dancer The fighter and the guide Every hope I called too foolish Every love I left outside No judgment in that crystal Just the choices I could make And two needles turned together When the old shell fell away [Interlude — Ayoa & Kaelo] [female Ayoa] I looked until I knew myself [male Kaelo] I waited where I could [female Ayoa] You did not choose the truth I saw [male Kaelo] I never thought I should [Final Chorus — female - Ayoa] The eye saw everything Then it closed without a sound Soft gold resting in my hands Two needles slowly turning round I turned to tell you what I’d witnessed But your hand was gone from mine One black feather crossed the silence And your voice was left behind [Outro — female - Ayoa] It showed me every version I had been afraid to see Then left a single black feather Where you had stood with me Two needles moved together Both insisting you were near The eye had shown me everything Except how you disappeared [outro piano] [outro whisper] Ben, Ben, Bennie pon di riddim Mmmmhhhh.....