As the sun sets And sets the past behind Packaged in a memory in the back of your mind And the hope lets go As you let your life rewind And re-live your world collapsing for the hundredth time I get lost in the skies, alone Where the rain turns the clouds to stone Don't you dare close your eyes What's known can fade to the darkness and still be home Don't close your eyes 'cause the night is over And realize that the pain's gone And steal the rain from the coming thunder To wash away what is said and done So I can sleep with the lights on With the sunrise Rise up off the ground And walk into what never was and can't be found And realize As you stop and turn around The the road ahead blurs out the past and drowns out the sound I'll be found in the skies, the light Will clear everything in sight Don't you dare close your eyes, tonight The future has never shown quite this bright Don't close your eyes 'cause the night is over And realize that the pain's gone And steal the rain from the coming thunder To wash away what is said and done So I can sleep with the lights on Don't you dare close your eyes