[00:00.92]Artist:melissa etheridge [00:01.73]Songs Title:open your mind [00:02.98] [00:17.54]How come there's so many people willing to suffer [00:21.41]So they get up and suffer every day [00:25.61]They think they were put on this Earth to suffer [00:27.48]And, by God, they're going to suffer [00:29.30]Until they suffer their lives away [00:33.51]How come so many are willing to say [00:36.20]There is no sense [00:38.79]There is no plan [00:39.91] [00:41.56]Yet they will not believe [00:43.42]The ancient mysteries [00:43.63] [00:45.86]Passed down through time into their hands [00:49.29]If my choice is despair or wonder [00:51.85] [00:53.29]On the line between truth and belief [00:55.54] [00:58.29]Do I just let the tide take me under [01:01.04] [01:02.42]Or do I let the fascination come on and rain all over me [01:07.67] [01:09.42]Open your mind [01:11.35] [01:19.98]Cause you have been blind [01:24.91] [01:30.48]Imagine the answers [01:32.04]Or questions will be all you find [01:34.97] [01:38.23]Open your mind [01:39.36] [01:48.17]The grooves in my life were unforgiving [01:51.89]Over the years I laid them down night after night [01:56.71]Work-eat-sleep [01:57.39]Work-eat-sleep [01:57.96]Work-eat-sleep [01:58.51]Work-eat-sleep [01:59.14]Work-eat-sleep [01:59.89]Work-eat-sleep [02:00.77] [02:01.33]Suffocating my delight [02:02.46] [02:03.76]I was dragged into the light [02:05.21]Into the stillness [02:06.41] [02:07.79]Into the white hot flame of my deepest fears [02:12.36] [02:12.98]And when I came crashing through [02:14.73] [02:15.42]Humbled and true [02:16.54] [02:17.29]I was better than I've been in years [02:19.67] [02:20.98]If my choice is end or beginning [02:23.48] [02:25.05]In my perception between death and life [02:28.11] [02:30.04]I'll keep on with this message I'm sending [02:33.29] [02:34.54]We may not know how or when, [02:36.86] [02:37.48]But don't you wanna know why [02:39.42] [02:44.54]Open your mind [02:45.79] [02:51.23]Cause you have been blind [02:54.60] [03:01.67]Open your mind