Through Square Eyes Lyrics - After Forever

(Child) This is the world through square eyes, 

I can see fiction like it's real 

Window to an unknown paradise 

A paradise where no one sees 

I wish I saw it all, 

A paradise where no one knows, 

all these images for real, the reality 

It's a seduction, like a dream 

I can feel pain, I feel the blood 

Out of your hands but in your minds 

The fire of the burning fight 

I wish I saw it all, I feel love as a disease, 

all these images for real, in my fantasy 

(Contemplative) Good or evil, right or wrong 

Find yourself between the dying crowd, the blooded streets 

How can't this affect a mind 

How can't this affect a pure, young heart 

(Child) In my own world it's getting worse 

It's never good enough for them 

Learn this, do that, do as we say 

As if results are all there is 

It doesn't affect me much, I cannot be more than I am, 

the screen shows me enough, face reality 

I can play I'm strong and tough 

And let them feel who should be blamed 

Fighting and killing for new lives 

A way to learn how to survive 

I can play on and on, it ends up just the same again 

but my life is not a game, life should be a game 

(Contemplative) Good or evil, right or wrong 

Find yourself between the dying crowd, the blooded streets 

How can't this affect a mind 

How can't this affect a pure, young heart 

(Child) Hope is fragile, 

and all there is to make them see I'm not that bad 

Hope is the last reason not to flee, not to run away 

into the tempting square world of fantasy, free me 

Oh, free me 

Hate is an impulse 

Your aversion, my reason 

(Contemplative) Games, movies, things a child should not see 

A flash; see, but you won't forget 

A game; play, play and hear and see, again 

It marks the heart and spills our youth 

(Child) I'm in the world of square minds 

The beauty of a clearer world 

Fighting a game, its name is life 

The game of life is hard to fight 

I've shot my hate today, you'll know the causes when it's too late 

its embodiment has paid, feel reality 

The pictures say more than you see 

Why should I see what you've told me 

Nothing gets worse, it stays the same 

The same is killing, anyway 

I wish I saw it all, so could you please let me escape 

all these images for real from reality 

(Contemplative) Good or evil, right or wrong 

Find yourself between the dying crowd, the blooded streets 

How can't this affect a mind 

How can't this affect a pure, young heart?