This new album is such an amazing accomplishment I don't even know where to start commenting. I've chosen this song because it seems like one of the two tracks that set up the metaphor which underlies the album's crux:
I'm not entirely sure, but at first listen "Shut Your Eyes" appears to mean "selective blindness", or not acknowledging the things that are ugly about this world (or perhaps the person you are dating).
It stands in direct opposition to "Open Your Eyes", which is acknowledgement of existing flaws, and rising to challenge them together.
So the progression from "Shut" to "Open" marks the journey of two people together moving from a superficial relationship to one of deeper commitment. It includes highs and lows, love and hate, bitter coldness, raging fires, minds racing, dark places...
This new album is such an amazing accomplishment I don't even know where to start commenting. I've chosen this song because it seems like one of the two tracks that set up the metaphor which underlies the album's crux:
I'm not entirely sure, but at first listen "Shut Your Eyes" appears to mean "selective blindness", or not acknowledging the things that are ugly about this world (or perhaps the person you are dating).
It stands in direct opposition to "Open Your Eyes", which is acknowledgement of existing flaws, and rising to challenge them together.
So the progression from "Shut" to "Open" marks the journey of two people together moving from a superficial relationship to one of deeper commitment. It includes highs and lows, love and hate, bitter coldness, raging fires, minds racing, dark places...
...I'm such a sucker for theme albums.
Wow, that definitely changes the way I look at the songs and the whole album in general.
Wow, that definitely changes the way I look at the songs and the whole album in general.