Red Cardinal

Open your eyes before you miss it all
The sun can’t quit shining and the leaves won’t wait to fall
So when the rain on the rooftop ricochets in tune
With whatever sounds deep down inside of you

Yeah, that’s the time
You wake up wanting
That’s the time
When it feels most daunting

Cause hope lives on horizons and wishes on the wings
Of the red cardinal eyeing you at your kitchen sink
High chance she’d be flying instead of frozen in your gaze

Seems like she came to say
“if you wanna get ahead…
You gotta get out your own way”
Mmmm, you gotta get out your own way
Uh huh, you gotta get out your own way

You can hopscotch the block skipping every sidewalk crack
Beat around that bush until you come right back
To the place where you started, yeah the place you’ve always been
Stuck in repeat until you really begin

Yeah, that’s the time
You wake up wanting
That’s the time
When it feels most daunting

Cause hope lives on horizons and wishes on the wings
Of the red cardinal eyeing you at your kitchen sink
High chance she’d be flying instead of frozen in your gaze
Seems like she came to say
“if you wanna get ahead…
You gotta get out your own way”
Uh ho, you gotta get out your own way
Uh huh, you gotta get out your own way
Mmm hmmm
Mmm hmmm