The hardest part of life Is trying to see Through the eyes of another How words can tilt the room How one small wound Can change the path forever Tell a man he’s toxic Not from what he’s done But what was done by others Home, school, work, play Every day the same And the mirror learns the lie Now he looks in the glass With a stranger’s stare And the world leans hard Like it never cared Wear his eyes for a day Wear his eyes for a day Then say what you say Then say what you say It grows in the dark In the places unseen Wear his eyes for a day Before you make him mean This is what the world says He hasn’t done enough He is guilty as they’ve charged Because he is a man And likes the things of men Now guilt is his first name He was told, he believed He becomes what they feed Angry at the world Angry at the system Angry at women Angry at color Angry at nation Angry at religion And the door in his chest Swings open slow To the brothers in the dark With nowhere else to go Wear his eyes for a day Wear his eyes for a day Then say what you say Then say what you say It grows in the dark In the places unseen Wear his eyes for a day Before you make him mean Hate builds a home In a hurt that never spoke Hate feeds on blame Till a soul turns to smoke And good men fold When the light gets thin If you never wore his eyes You let the ruin in Wear his eyes for a day Wear his eyes for a day Then say what you say Then say what you say It grows in the dark In the places unseen Wear his eyes for a day Before you make him mean Wear his eyes for a day Wear his eyes for a day Hate blossoms in the soul Where you plant it And no one sees
