Iris (Hold Me Close)

Ancient aliens interpretation of this song...

"The star that gives us light" - aliens came to earth long ago and created man by combining their DNA with that of early homo sapiens or apes

"Has been gone awhile" - aliens no longer make their presence known to the masses

"But it’s not an illusion The ache in my heart Is so much a part of who I am" - feelings in his heart tell him that the alien part of him is real even though they have disappeared

"Something in your eyes took a thousand years to get here" - he recognizes there is a part of humans that is alien from thousands of years away in a distant world, even the human iris looks somewhat like a supernova explosion

"The darkness just lets us see Who we are I've got your life inside of me" - looking within he realizes that part of who he is, is from an extra terrestrial life form

"Iris, Iris" - part of the eye that controls the light being exposed to the retna, similar to how aliens have masked our esp senses (6th & 7th senses) so that we live in ignorance of the light (higher dimensions). The iris metaphor is crucial to understanding how aliens control our perceptions, by masking what we can see/perceive, and how we live in ignorance of our true origin and true existence.

"Once we are born We begin to forget The very reason we came But you I’m sure I've met Long before the night The stars went out We’re meeting up again" - we quickly forget our alien and spiritual origins and other abilities and senses soon after we are born as we are drawn into the material world and are tricked by illusions and false perceptions that control our minds.

"You took me by the hand I thought that I was leading you But it was you made me your man Machine," - another critical line, basically showing how man believes he is in control of this world but however we were really created by extra terrestrial beings for reasons we don't fully understand, but likely we are being programmed by them, hence their machine. its also possible that the ancient aliens were machines/clones themselves.

"Iris standing in the hall She tells me I can do it all Iris wakes to my nightmares Don’t fear the world It isn't there" - "there are two types of aliens, those which believe humans should be controlled and those which believe we should be free to experience the truth. This line reflects the opinions of the aliens who want man to be free and understand the truth of their existence.

"Iris playing on the Strand She buries the boy beneath the sand Iris says that I will be the death of her It was not me" - confusing, but i think this is the view of the aliens which feel humans' perceptions must be controlled. They feel that humans could be a threat if they operated on the same dimensions/plane of reality and had the same abilities as them, and could potentially destroy them.

"Iris, Iris She said free yourself to be yourself If only you could see yourself Free yourself to be yourself If only you could see" - the view of the aliens which want to help humans, trying to let them know that their lives are not real, your "self" is not real, there is no division, everything is connected and one. In the world of matter - we believe in concrete separate things, we think that you are there and i am here, but really we are all everywhere. Up creates down, you live in a world of dualities, light and shadow, hot and cold, but you don't understand the truth in which there is only a unity, where matter isn't real.