allegory of the cave Lyrics

Sun, you enlighten me as you blind me

Sun, you enlighten me as you blind me

Sun, you enlighten me as you blind me

Shadows you entertain me as you fool me

Sun, you enlighten me as you blind me

Shadows you entertain me as you fool me

My home is my prison, my cave is my wisdom

Shadows cast by fire, I've known my entire

Life I can't turn my head like I can't move my legs

Fixed forever in here, fixed together like we're

Statues. But if one of all us could turn

Round and see the burning fire and learn

That there's more to knowing

More than just the glowing objects looking foreign

Now I'm searching for an exit opening

Now someone's dragging me towards the blinding

Brightness approaching

Gosh it hurts my eyes

Gosh it burns inside

So for all my life

There's been this white light

Sun, you enlighten me as you blind me

Sun, you enlighten me as you blind me

Sun, you enlighten me as you blind me

Shadows you entertain me as you fool me

Sun, you enlighten me as you blind me

Shadows you entertain me as you fool me

I could take offense

At the difference

Of this place outside

This place bathed in light

Brighter than what you find in the cave and my mind

More to see, hear and know

So it all goes to show

That seeing's believing

But this vision's paining

Me. It's agony

I don't want to be

Up here among this

Knowledge. No, I wish

To return to my cave

Should not have strayed away

So I told the others and they mocked me

So I told the others and they killed me

Just because the others don't believe me

Sun, you enlighten me as you blind me

Shadows you entertain them as you fool them

Sun, you enlighten me as you blind me

Shadows you entertain them as you fool them