Eyes Wide Open

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You say you don't want me

You say you don't care

You say that your heart

Ain't got no room for me there

You say you don't need me

But I know that it's just a lie

'Cause when you call me in the night

Tellin' me your life is better off without me

The rest he sort of just drowned out.

"That was Givin Yourself Away by Ratt," boomed the radio man's voice through the speakers.

So badly Steve wanted to change the station. So badly he wanted to turn the radio off the second he heard the song intro. Instead he sat and listened. After the first four lines he prayed like hell to have the strength to reach his hand out and turn the radio dial. However; something deep within stopped him. Something made him sit and listen, listen to the song, take in the lyrics.

He loved it. It was one of the few songs he'd really grown fond of since being in this decade. Yet he hated it, even going so far as to say he detested it. Just because of the pain and agony that it invoked and the tears that it made him release. It made him realize that he can't live another day without.

As much as he lied to himself, saying it's going to be easy. All I have to say is "no more" and that's it. After hearing this song, he knew that that would be far from the truth.

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