| Andrew Bird – Eyeoneye Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Why is it so hard to allow ourselves to open up and let others in? Well, the easy answer to this is that we don’t like putting ourselves out there in an easy state of vulnerability where our hearts are up for grabs. Many of us have felt heartbreak before and it is a feeling one veers to avoid. In order to ensure steady conditions of our hearts, many of us put up a defensive barrier around it, making it difficult for anything to break through. This message is one that I believe is being conveyed in Andrew Bird’s Eyeoneye. In the beginning of the song, we get a dismantlement of this unspecified person who is taking themselves apart and laying the defenses to their wall; solidifying its positions, but never getting too close to home. Once the groundwork for this person’s barrier is complete, the re-ionizing process begins. This process seems to be an ongoing development that our song’s protagonist is still coming to terms with, never eyeing the eye that is their eye. Once this person runs face first into their “sand-wall”, however, they realize how truly alone they really are and only then do they begin to comprehend that the only heart that is being broken is their own due to their own accord. Bird captures this realization perfectly in the song by having the breakdown (and it's eyeoneyeoneyeoneyeoneye) start to lose its key and structure, only to gain its composure once this person figures they could actually use some help. | |
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