Everyday Eyes

(Music & Lyrics © Ronald D. Crowder)

ASCAP 

Growing up in a working class family, I’ve often been struck by the futility of the day-to-day grind of working to live, living to work. Sort of the hamster wheel of life, wherein, for the average person, having dreams and pursuing them is often outside the realm of reality. A large percentage of the few who do pursue their dreams often wind up giving up. For most people the majority of our lives are spent merely struggling to survive. My parents worked very hard when I was young. We lived a working class existence. We certainly weren’t rich. We had some good times and we had some hard times. And there came a point where the hard times took over. To witness my parents work so hard all of their lives to create a good life for our family, and then see it ultimately disappear made a huge impact on me. I decided that, come what may, I was going to pursue my dreams. Because there are no guarantees and money often comes and goes. This song was a direct result of that experience.

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I look at their eyes 

And wonder what’s behind 

Faces can hide 

What we feel inside 

We all have our dreams 

Some day we’ll achieve 

But somehow it seems 

We get lost in our routines 

I see all, I see all 

All that I never wanted to be 

Tell me why, tell me why 

Why do we work so hard to succeed? 

Everyday people live everyday lives 

All of the children, husbands and wives 

Race to the rhythm, the beat of the world 

All their dreams are disguised by everyday eyes

 

We rise in degrees 

And get the jobs that feed 

But some of us dream 

Of a different currency

 

What’s it all for? 

Did you think that there’d be more 

Than to slowly conform 

To a life that leaves you bored? 

I see all, I see all 

All that I never wanted to be 

Tell me why, tell me why 

Why do we work so hard to succeed? 

Everyday people live everyday lives 

All of the children, husbands and wives 

Race to the rhythm, the beat of the world 

All their dreams are disguised by everyday eyes 

Everyday eyes 

Everyday eyes 

Everyday eyes 

Everyday eyes 

I see all, I see all 

All that I never wanted to be 

Tell me why, tell me why 

Why do we work so hard to succeed? 

Everyday people live everyday lives 

All of the children, husbands and wives 

Race to the rhythm, the beat of the world 

All their dreams are disguised— 

Everyday people live everyday lives 

All of the children, husbands and wives 

Race to the rhythm, the beat of the world 

All their dreams are disguised by everyday eyes

-End-

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