Right Before Your Eyes

There was no mistaking the panic in the frantic knocking at the front door. "You've got to let me in. I need a place to stay!"

"I can't do it. There's no room for you."

"You have to. I've got no place left to turn."

"That doesn't make it any more possible for me. Why don't you go up to one of those big houses and ask?"

"They refuse to listen. They won't listen to anything I say! They're deaf and will do anything to stay that way."

"They're the only ones who can help."

"I need somebody who can hear me. This is hell. This is hell's hell! They're coming for me and I've got no money to my name. Money is all they understand."

"I'm in the same situation too. They can take my place any day."

"What are you going to do then? Can't you see? We have to unite against this or we're all sunk!"

"I can see it but that won't make it happen."

"Don't you understand? These people are killers. Nothing stops them. They crucify people to be eaten alive by wild dogs. Who are these monsters?"

"What about the police?'

"What police? They refuse to see me. They say I could come after the dogs kill me and fill out a complaint."

"How can they refuse to see you? You're right before their eyes."

"They said it was their job not to see me. They said they'd lose their money if they did and they need to feed their families. They said better me dead than their kid."

"I really don't see much hope for uniting."

"But we have to! These monsters won't stop, they wear all the best suits and drive all the best cars. They come for some then they come for more! It's me today but you tomorrow. They keep picking us off."

"They say that's the way of the world and that the world is good. Doesn't look like anyone plans on changing."

"Even if it means death??"

"The people who can do something don't say it means death. The people who say it means death can't do anything."

"But there's so many more of us than them!"

"It's just going to keep happening, man, what can I tell you? I don't want to die either but what can I do?"

"I can't believe this. I can't believe this is happening. I look around me and I see the flowers and the sun and all I hear is how we have to die and nothing can be done. What's the point of even being alive?"

"I don't know. I don't have any answers. I just know I got no place for you. That's how things work. That's how things have to work."

"Why? Why? Can't we change? Is there no hope?"

"What about your friends? What about that lady friend of yours you kept mooning over, saying she put the stars in the sky?"

"I ran away, I couldn't face her. I trusted her until I found out she watched "Glee". She got too close and I was petrified so I sabotaged it just I like I did with everyone else. I don't understand what's wrong with me! Why do I always do the exact worse thing possible?"

"Don't know what to tell you, Judas. They say we've all got our cross to bear. Maybe if you had changed and been honest you wouldn't be in this mess. You always had such lovely dreams."