How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced by Aaron Dessner.
No wonder I'm scared to look in your eyes
You've turned my away so many times
You can take it away at any given moment
It's hard to believe while you're in this disguise
So would you hold me please?
I'm trying hard to breath
I'm just surviving
So would you hold me please?
I'm trying hard to breath
Stop me from crying
When I see you walking with her
I have to cover my eyes
Every time you leave with her
Something inside of me dies
No wonder it hurts to sit by your side
(Turned me away so many times)
There's a different song I can play you tonight
(We don't have to sit here in silence)
We can break the pattern, we can change the color
(It's just a little sacrifice)
You don't need to worry about the others
(It's all in your mind)
So would you hold me please?
I'm trying hard to breath
I'm just surviving
So would you hold me please?
I'm trying hard to breath
Stop me from crying
When I see you walking with her
I have to cover my eyes
Every time you leave with her
Something inside of me dies [repeat 2x]
Something inside me dies
When I see you walking with her
I have to cover my eyes
(cover my eyes, cover my eyes, cover my eyes)
Every time you leave with her
Something inside of me dies
(my eyes) [repeat 2x]
You've turned my away so many times
You can take it away at any given moment
It's hard to believe while you're in this disguise
So would you hold me please?
I'm trying hard to breath
I'm just surviving
So would you hold me please?
I'm trying hard to breath
Stop me from crying
When I see you walking with her
I have to cover my eyes
Every time you leave with her
Something inside of me dies
No wonder it hurts to sit by your side
(Turned me away so many times)
There's a different song I can play you tonight
(We don't have to sit here in silence)
We can break the pattern, we can change the color
(It's just a little sacrifice)
You don't need to worry about the others
(It's all in your mind)
So would you hold me please?
I'm trying hard to breath
I'm just surviving
So would you hold me please?
I'm trying hard to breath
Stop me from crying
When I see you walking with her
I have to cover my eyes
Every time you leave with her
Something inside of me dies [repeat 2x]
Something inside me dies
When I see you walking with her
I have to cover my eyes
(cover my eyes, cover my eyes, cover my eyes)
Every time you leave with her
Something inside of me dies
(my eyes) [repeat 2x]
Lyrics submitted by smokealarm
Cover My Eyes Lyrics as written by Benedict Langmaid Eleanor Jackson
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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I think it's pretty obvious what this is about, but I'll say what I think anyway.
Obviously it's unrequited love, she wants to see him, to be with him - but at the same time it hurts too much knowing he'll never feel the same way about her. That's why it hurts to look in his eyes, to see him with someone else. She wants to see him, because she loves him, and seeing him is a high, but she also knows how quickly he can (and will) take that high away from her, when he makes her realise that he'll never feel the same way. And she just wants to be comforted.
It's a song that we can all relate to. Which I think most of La Roux's songs are.