Open Your Eyes

"Open Your Eyes" for me is directed towards those who have achieved enough education to use this education in a profession. The song present two choices that person can make: they can "hide their face forever", or they can "dream and search forever." Many people hide their face by allowing their dreams to be replaced by the goals of rising up the pecking order and of monetary gain once they join the workforce. With this replacement, they don't only sell their skills, they literally sell themselves as what are we if not our dreams and passions. They use their education in "selfish" and "mindless" ways as they use it only in accord with what will gain them those superficial selfish goals of power and money. They became these dreams. They selfishly think they are better than all the rest and act coldly to others who are in charge because they themselves want to be in charge. Some may pretend to hold onto their old dreams, maybe while they are in their own homes, but this "split" "mentality" does not follow any "reason." One can not say one has those old dreams if one does not act towards accomplishing them when one is in a position to. The chorus of the song has the main message. It tells people to open themselves up to their limited way of seeing the world, and to recover those old dreams. In order to accomplish these dream one must not be "proud like a god" and pretend to be blind to the changes that have occurred in them. Life is not just "a chance to grow up quick" where one must adopt the morals of corporate gain, a trip in which one has no control, a trip in which one never takes the chance to stand up for oneself.

I think this song is just about breaking out. Becoming your own person. Don't follow the crowd. This song gets me pumped up.

I think this song is just about breaking out. To not be just one of the average joe's

Great song! I also first heard this song when i watched a video of martial artists/performers. The song is pretty pumped and matched well with the clip. After listening to it a few times and reading the lyrics, i think the song is trying to get people who already know that they should break out to do so instead of pretending to follow, and keep their true thoughts and feelings covered up; stop 'pretending to be blind' even though you're not. The point is to not keep your thoughts and true intentions to yourself, but to go and express them.

btw...kudos to ppl who post msgs such as "i love this song" or "awesome" on a site called songMEANINGS.net...without contributing anything else...keep up the good job

It's about challanging our preconceived paradigms, all our "isms."

Can this shiela growl or what. Fuck yeah.

Open your eyes!!! La-la la la la

this is one of there best songs. they ever have been.. i hope that the come to the netherlands. i want to see them live

wow, theres news to me, i didnt know that a girl sang the vocals! interesting, hmmm well this is an awsome song, i dont really care what it means, its great!

i thought it was a guy who sang, imagine my surprise. love the wah riff and it is just an overall solid song