David Gray - The Haunted House lyrics

The Haunted House Have YOU ever BEEN to A HAUNTED HOUSE? bET YOU have! a place you didn't understand a place that frightened you Did you SEE? Did you HEAR? Did you THINK? that you knew what was around the corner think back to a time to a place where you felt you had been before but couldn't understand why you felt that way De'ja' voo Did you hear the noise? Did you SEE the light? BATs flying way UP high MONSTERS walking through a haze coming CLOSER, CLOSER, CLOSER Do you SEE how it collides with R E A L I T Y? We walk in a trance every day No time for reflecting Always in a hurry Driving our weapons of destruction faster, faster, faster No time for KINDNESS No time to GIVE No time to FEEL I saw a woman in the LAUNDROMAT I heard her ask how much it would cost to repair her TORN clothes She looked like a deer caught in the CROSSFIRE Was so worried about how much it cost no A F F E CT i knew in my heart and soul that she needed HELP so i gave her a coin so she could get her clothes repaired Didn't want her to worry about whether she could eat And as i was about to leave discretely she asked said: WHO ARE YOU? I was startled because i knew that she REMEMBERED REMEMBERED REMEMBERED She knew that i understood HER PAIN Because I was that woman in another LIFE a VAGABOND, who lost HER way due to circumstance It is the people who can still feel the pain they are the ONES who are still AWAKE they haven't let their HEARTS fall asleep they haven't let their souls be silenced or encased in SEA of DENIAL We've all been in THE HAUNTED HOUSE Blinded by our goals JUST trying to make ends meet But what about GOODNESS? We forgot ABOUT goodness we forgot that goodness COUNTS more than anything more than MONEY, POWER, or FAME GOODNESS counts! don't forget it's all that matters don't forget don't forget It's all that really matters Just be good and try to do the RIGHT thing and (s)he will forgive us if we mess up just take the time just make the effort to do the right thing and (s)he will forgive us for (s)he knows that we are only human and that we live in a haunted house a house that makes us forget where we've been isobel