Shut Your Eyes Lyrics

Lyric discussion by mooniczek 

Cover art for Shut Your Eyes lyrics by Snow Patrol

so maybe it's about act of making love with someone...when you're depressed "And when the worrying starts to hurt and the world feels like graves of dirt" it's the best way to forget about everything...

"By the fire we break the quiet Learn to wear each other well" the fire could means a love and a desire...a fire between boy and a girl which you feel... just like you hearing it inside of you.. and learn each other well is like the boy fit perfectly girl and girl fit perfectly boy...like wearing each other in time having a sex

"Just close your eyes until you can imagine this place, you're our secret space as well" this safe place is girls vagina...boy is inside girl protecting her from all the world and giving her pleasure and love...and girl protects boy hiding him inside of her;) they are one body...secret place..

"Shut your eyes, I spin the big chair You'll feel dizzy, light, and free" it's a methaphor of pleasure, orgasm..he makes she feels safe, free, happy... "And falling gently on the cushion" it's about come back to reality after time of pleasure.. then she should shut her eyes and sing to him just this what he sings to her;]

oh..it's so so so so beautiful song i love it;)

(oh, and now i'm learning english...so it might be that i haven't understood it in correctly way..;] oh and sorry for grammatical mistakes..)

I don't think this song is about sex. I think it's about relying on the love in your life to get through troubled times. I can see how you would read it as being about sex, though. The line "learn to wear each other well" does seem to imply it, but I think that the line is more about being able to be together as a 'unit' well, rather than the petty squabbling that characterizes a lot of relationships.

Good job on the English, it's hard to learn a new language, but I think it's rewarding!