"Window of the Waking Mind"

"Window of the Waking Mind" is a song by the American rock band Coheed and Cambria. It is the thirteenth song on their 2022 album Vaxis - Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind.

Lyrics
I: TIME (Time...)

Time has a funny way of playing jokes On you... While you're waiting for what You think you know Will happen next Is never what you could have come to expect... And so it goes (Oh) and so it goes

Deep inside his eyes I see myself As I wonder who he’ll turn out to be Is that the question that needs answering... Right now?

II: THE AWAKENING "And so concludes this chapter As my parents unravel the untangled threads of my reality Not of design, but by accident My perception in question As I leave the infinite for the present And rise... A Window of the Waking Mind"

III: THE BIRTH Here's a simple story And I hope I tell it well Of a boy locked in a place His mind, the very cell Imprisoned with his wild visions Of every time in space There's no one in this world Quite like him

The thing that complicates it Is his parents and who they are The law they're made to run from Beyond the House of the Stars The birth must be in secret So no prying eyes can see There’s no one else this world Quite like him

Our pride and joy Are you there? Are you in there, safe and sound? Tell us what you need, so we can help you We don't know what to do We don't know what to do

Patronizing doctors With their diagnostic leads Carry on your query It's blood, the boy, he bleeds But you can't see him like you So a monster he must be There's no one in this world Quite like him

Vaxis... Son... Do you hear us? Do you feel us? Son! (Son!)

IV: THE MIRRORING EYES "Vaxis, Vaxis, Vaxis..." Vaxis can you see us with your eyes? Vaxis, can you hear us with your ears? Is this right to calculate his moments? To find what's normal... is being normal... What's right? (What's right?)

Can you feel it? (No!) Can you hear it? (No!)

V: THE MOTHER Time I’ll take you home This child of ours I'll take you home With all my love I’ll give you the world And keep no secrets from you So life get's tough But it's no excuse or your fault My brightest star Shine your light on us all

Am I wrong Or did he save me? Shine your love on all this crazy

VI: THE FATHER Who said you got to rush to get old? Figure it all out or you'll be left in the cold Little one, let them Don't follow, just set them free You can do it on your own time, so you know I'll be watching you Armed to the teeth Don't you go poking While the lion, he sleeps My boy, it's okay to cry

I'm telling you to... TIME!

Who said you got to rush to get old? Figure it all out or you'll be left in the cold Little one, let them Don't follow, just set them free You can do it on your own time, so you know I'll be watching you Armed to the teeth Don't you go poking While the lion, he sleeps My boy, it's okay to cry

TIME!

Story Context
To be added...

Background
Heavily inspired by the book NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman that Sanchez was reading, he found many connections between him and his son and started playing with the idea of what "strict normality" was. That is, though the character Vaxis is born seemingly with something wrong with him, he actually just has a higher consciousness, one beyond his parent's understanding. And this, of course, will become important in further Amory Wars installments.

Trivia

 * "Old Flames" is interpolated on this track.
 * Sanchez said that this song was born of his flirting with writing for musicals.