This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
20 Eyes in my head
20 Eyes in my head
20 Eyes in my head
They're all the same, they're all the same
20 Eyes in my head
20 Eyes in my head
They're all the same, they're all the same
When you're seeing 20 things at a time
You just can't slow things down, baby
When you're seeing 20 things in your mind
Just can't slow things down
Then all those eyes
They're just crowding up your human face
Then all those eyes
Take an overload
20 Eyes in my head
20 Eyes in my head
20 Eyes in my head
They're all the same, they're all the same
When you're seeing 20 things at a time
You just can't slow things down, baby
When you're seeing 20 things in your mind
Just can't slow things down
Then all those eyes
They're just crowding up your human face
Then all those eyes
Take an overload
20 Eyes in my head
20 Eyes in my head
20 Eyes in my head
They're all the same
20 Eyes in my head
They're all the same
20 eyes in my head
They're all the same
20 eyes in my head
They're all the same
20 Eyes in my head
20 Eyes in my head
They're all the same, they're all the same
20 Eyes in my head
20 Eyes in my head
They're all the same, they're all the same
When you're seeing 20 things at a time
You just can't slow things down, baby
When you're seeing 20 things in your mind
Just can't slow things down
Then all those eyes
They're just crowding up your human face
Then all those eyes
Take an overload
20 Eyes in my head
20 Eyes in my head
20 Eyes in my head
They're all the same, they're all the same
When you're seeing 20 things at a time
You just can't slow things down, baby
When you're seeing 20 things in your mind
Just can't slow things down
Then all those eyes
They're just crowding up your human face
Then all those eyes
Take an overload
20 Eyes in my head
20 Eyes in my head
20 Eyes in my head
They're all the same
20 Eyes in my head
They're all the same
20 eyes in my head
They're all the same
20 eyes in my head
They're all the same
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400/20 vision would suck
i agree, insane metal fan
i always thought it would be 400/400 vision XD
i thought it was about Attention Deficit Disorder
Ha i like the ADD thing since my attention spa's so..... uhm. what was i saying?
And i know the original post is a year and a half old but technically it would be 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20 vision. The number refers only to what the viewers eye sees based on a standard of 20 feet when you se 20/20 it's refering to the viewers right/left eyes respectively without the standard of 20 so say you can see at 45 feet what others see at 20 with your right eye but can only see the standard chart set at 20 feet away when you're 8 feet away with your left (i used that example cuse that's how my eyes see) your vision would be expressed as 8/45
not that anyone cares
And also, i'm sure The Fly and The Eye Monster are appropriate sources of inspiration for the song i have always felt that the song itself is about paranois, about being so overwhelmed with mistrust and a sense of impending doom or treachery that it interferes with having a normal life
just my 2 cents
And also, i'm sure The Fly and The Eye Monster are appropriate sources of inspiration for the song i have always felt that the song itself is about paranois, about being so overwhelmed with mistrust and a sense of impending doom or treachery that it interferes with having a normal life
just my 2 cents