| Local Natives – Wide Eyes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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HAHN: I wrote the lyrics after seeing this TV special about a boy in Nepal who allegedly meditated in the jungle for 10 months straight, without eating or drinking or even moving. I already had the chorus line, “Oh to see it with my own eyes,” but the verses came about after watching these thousands of people swarming to witness and study this seemingly miraculous event. It got me thinking about our collective fascination with extraordinary events, both good and bad. The line “Oh some evil spirit, oh some evil this way comes/They told me how they fear it, now they’re placing it on their tongues” is about phenomena like disaster tourism or rubberneckers on the freeway. It’s interesting to me that we have such a desire to witness out-of-the-ordinary things for ourselves. We were still all living together in LA when I wrote the song. I remember showing the guys an early demo of it right before we went to the UK for the first time in July of 2009. We jammed on it a few times during that trip and by the time we got home in August we’d decided to hunker down and finish it. Even though our record label already had what they thought was our completed album in their possession, we wanted this new song to make the album. So at the last minute, we went into the studio and recorded it. |
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