Opened Eyes

Opened Eyes
Words and music by Penny Lewton Binek

[Verse]
I was driving down the highway
thinking through my past,

when suddenly it came to me
a clear and crystal "Yes...."
I have thanked you for the good times,
it's time to thank you for the bad.
All the parts we play, you see,
show me who I am....

[Chorus]
These are my footsteps, my battles--
a contrast, every one,
to the Light I see within me
dawning as the Sun.
The love that I sought was in me,
buried beneath a film.
From the sorrows of a blinded heart
to the joys of opened eyes!

[Verse]
Thank you, all you doctors,
who could not cure my ills.

Missing marks etched on my heart,

wounds and scars and fails.

Fin'lly feeling it all broke down my walls--

to the perfection of my soul.

Awakened wonder made the pain at last

fade into the pale....

[Chorus]
These are my footsteps, my battles--
a contrast, every one,
to the Light I see within me
dawning as the Sun.
The love that I sought was in me,
buried beneath a film.
From the sorrows of a blinded heart
to the joys of opened eyes!

[Verse]

To the lawyers who lost my cases

and the systems which seemed to fail--
You always seemed to be
pointing at me,
condemning me to a jail.

Asking the deeper questions,
I searched my heart for what felt right.
I see truth in me, unending liberty,
loving justice that's prevailed....

[Chorus]
These are my footsteps, my battles--
a contrast, every one,
to the Light I see within me
dawning as the Sun.
The love that I sought was in me,
buried beneath a film.
From the sorrows of a blinded heart
to the joys of opened eyes!

[Verse]
Mom and Dad, you know I have adored you
from the moment I was born.
Imagine my dismay when I found one day
to your views I'd not conform!
I dived deep inside, questioned my pride--
with this I must not be wrong!

But what better way to know my strength of faith

and seek a harmonizing song....

[Chorus]
These are my footsteps, my battles--
a contrast, every one,
to the Light I see within me
dawning as the Sun.
The love I always sought was in me,
buried beneath a film.
From the sorrows of a blinded heart
to the joys of opened eyes!

[Refrain]

For all the ways you've let me down--

Thank you....Thank you....

It made me dig within 

where I found true treasure

Vales of rollercoaster highway

brought me here.

They brought me here

to the joy of opened eyes....

For all the ways you've held me up--

Thank you.... Thank you....

for this dance of love.

Sometimes apart, sometimes together

Its twists and turns of fate--

they brought me here--

down my winding-wavy highway

to the joy of opened eyes....

Down my own gift of highway

we opened up together

to the graceful joy.... 

of these loving opened eyes!