Color Blindness Lyrics - Howard Lawrence

Helpless is all I can feel 

There's a plate in my head of reinforced steel 

Have patience they said 

We've done all we can this time 

I know it's wrong to hang your hat on a rack that don't belong 

But I was too young to realize the world wasn't mine 

When will the fog clear? 

To feel alive again I'll say goodbye and disappear 

How do these things happen? 

Maybe I'm just color blind 

They tried in vain to save his tender ego 

But she found a way to punish him with bullets and arrows 

They traded for the standard replacement 

Then left him in shock in the basement 

His hair in disarray 

They told me things they knew were false 

And never tried to fight the impulse 

Spent many days and nights behind the curtain 

Paralyzed with fear as they made their moves 

The pain's still sharp-it lingers on 

They left me with nothing but things to prove 

Too stoned to find the door 

So he curls up frightened on the floor 

Winter passes while he's away 

The doctors and nurses have nothing to say 

Take back my soul now 

All I see is red 

When I'm lost I'm found 

Back in bed 

Researchers can chart my decline 

I wanna be brave 

And take a dive off the coast to test the waves 

When I'm too far from the shore would you throw me a line? 

Put my trust in science 

That's the honest way back to self-reliance 

The lights have changed 

This man's no longer color blind 

He opened up the drawer to find the letter 

It said she had to get away for something better 

Their program enhanced his understanding 

His nightmare was over and soon he'd be landing