Diamond Eyes

This entire album is a masterpiece.

I never like to think of what the song means to the artist personally because that is their own influence for putting the piece together. Chino has stated on several occasions that his songs are open to interpretation, much like Maynard's work with Tool. Chino has also specified that this entire album was not written from his perspective but from another. Which begs me to question if this was really written about how he feels about Chi being in comatose and instead being written from Chi's perspective.

I think it deals with two separate entities still feeling each others presence and influence despite being in two different places (mentally, physically, spiritually) and how even though that bridge makes a divide of some kind, it can not last forever because the two separate entities are not destined to be apart.

As lame as it sounds, in short, I believe it is about a persons Soul Mate having direct effect without knowing it and how it will one day bring them together.

It makes sense that the title track would be for Chi, "Diamond Eyes" meaning glazed over. I hope he gets better soon.

Listening to this album is like taking a trip through the galaxy.

Breathtaking!!

"Time will see us realign Diamonds reign across the sky Shower me into the same realm"

he's saying chi will get better with time his eyes are a bit glazed like the sky in sacramento (used to live there) he's gonna be happy to tears when chi wakes up and comes back to the living world, or "realm"

"Calculate our embrace, hold on (Come with me now) Right away, all expense, with me"

counting the days till he can hug his buddy hello again beckoning him to wake up chino would give anything to have chino back with them

easy to see why its about chi, hell he's the reason i started playing bass all those years ago.

So, this is about addiction? can someone explain?....amazing song though!

Thats a very good point, The owl makes me think of the movie the fourth kind, where the aliens were mistaken as owl before hypnotherapy, The album as a whole has alot of extra-terrestrial themes so.. possibly?

Please see my summary of each track. Basically I believe the album as a whole tells the following story:

On his deathbed at the end of the album, the human-turned god-turned human (Chi?) addresses his wife. The album has told us that she existed as goddess, complex priestess, DIAMOND EYES, over the Earth for a very long time before the man begged her to let him join her ranks. She let him into her ROYAL chambers, and impressed with his compassion for the Earth, made him her king and gave him CMND. He distracted her from her duties with the pleasures of Earth. She lost her purity when SHE SAW THE BUTCHER. She waived her immortality to be with him physically, and they had a son. When the PRINCE and Earthlings destroyed the planet, she was killed. Earth ROCKET SKATED into a state of hell. The only remnant of the beautiful past was the SEXTAPE. The Prince asked his father to take a RISK by opening old wounds and making an attempt at forgiveness. If the father ever wanted to forgive the son, who had committed evil, he was available at 976-EVIL. Earth was a PLACE OF DEATH because it managed to tempt and ultimately kill the complex priestess who had ruled for so long.

Am I full of shit, or is this the greatest story ever told?

wake him up with love, this whole album is love.

This is such a beautiful song. It definitely is a new age philosophy song that gives a universal sense to understanding being in a high trance.

This right here embodies everything I love about Deftones. Totally worth the wait, this is SUCH an amazing song.