Broken Eyes

Joe's home early one Friday night

Hugs his children and beloved wife

He tells 'em they'll never know how much they mean to him

Gotta big smile on his face but inside he's not okay

Lost his job without severance pay

Got three mouths to feed and a fourth on the way

He doesn't have any clue where they're gonna stay gotta move

Gotta break it to his wife that they didn't have money saved

Empty accusations ruining relations

Between friends who once played together when they were youngens

Wrong time wrong place end up in chains

No room for mistakes they

Try to connect the pieces paying for their leases

Making ends meet but they'll never get everything that they've needed

If they're gonna make it through this say they just can't do it

Can you see through their broken eyes

To what lies behind

Judith spends most of her time at the church

Making clothes and quilts for people like her

Now she may be older but once she was a soldier

Living life day to day wondering if she'd ever hold her sons again

Been some years since she's been out of the force

But she still gets flashbacks of her time in the war

You'd never know she served across the sea

Got deployed had to leave her little boys alone with no one there to care for them

Empty accusations ruining relations

Between friends who once played together when they were youngens

Wrong time wrong place end up in chains

No room for mistakes they

Try to connect the pieces paying for their leases

Making ends meet but they'll never get everything that they've needed

If they're gonna make it through this say they just can't do it

Can you see through their broken eyes

To what lies behind

And Suzy's loving Rob but she can't keep it cool

Cuz at home dad hit her if she doesn't keep his rules and

Rob's gotta job but the hospital bills

Keep on piling to the sky gotta keep himself alive and

Jenny needs a break but she just can't get it

Cuz she's working for Blake and he's gotta make a living

If he's gonna pay the bills on the shop they rent

Where Suzy met Rob before he was in debt

And Judith loves Jenny as any grandmother should

But the only way she can help her is to sell off all her goods

Take a look at their lives can't you take a little time to see

Just give 'em a break and open up your eyes

Just give 'em a break and open up your eyes

Give 'em a break and open up your eyes

Give 'em a break and open up your eyes eyes eyes

And see what's inside