| The Who – Naked Eye Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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What amazes me is how much is really said in so few lyrics - First stanza sums up youth and the power most youths feel as they taste their first freedoms (of sex, drugs, material possessions) and the taste of what youths believe is self control and power over their future destinations(we all know as you learn more about the world - it don't happen that way at all). Second stanza initially talks about relationships (can be metaphor or allegory for any relationship - couples, family, friends, enemies). "You have same names but still have separate rooms" - this can be interpreted as couples/friends are so similar yet far apart, or even the human race is so similar but we distance ourselves from each other. Covering up your guts is the eveyday facade people put on to cope with life, but when you cover up your nuts (most sensitive part) is when you will react (fight or flight). "Press any button, milk and honey flows" - tried and true statement, you may never really know what is behind how/why you may have access to any commodity, but you just care that they are there. The world begins behind your neighbor's wall - means you know all about what might be in your head but everyone else's mind is a whole other world. Last stanza - one person is the agressor and one is the victim - yet neither person might see it that way no matter how obvious it may appear - isn't this so much the crux of the world's problems... It all seems so to the Naked Eye - but it don't really happen that way at all. Can go on about what it means to me - but ultimately these simple lyrics can mean so many different things to everyone - ironicially, that is exactly what the song is about - it seems so to the naked eye, but unless you take the time to understand your fellow man/woman - it don't really happen that way at all. |
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