Open Your Eyes Lyrics

Lyric discussion by thecontemplater 

Cover art for Open Your Eyes lyrics by Snow Patrol

Everyone has their demons but to varying degrees. Some peoples lives are taken over by hurts, scars and things from the past, things they cant seem to shake or escape. Loving and living daily life with a person who is thrashing their way through a depression or dealing with deep emotional hurts/scars can be an exhausting process. Sometimes in the process of dealing with their shit they hurt the ones they love and who love them. It's not that they want to, but cant help it because of the place in life they are in.

This is what I think the song is about: The singer desperatly wants to lead his love through this deep valley, if only she would open her eyes and look into his and stop listening to the lies she hears about herself. He is saying take my hand and we will walk through this step by step, regardless of how tired I become or how hurt I get in the process. The first thing in getting away from the lies (that would take her sould or fire/spirit) is to open her eyes. He's saying "please open your eyes, look at me and how much I love you, look into my eyes and trust me to lead you out of this". The song ends with a promise: that he wont waste a minuite without her, and conversly any moment without her would be a wasted one on their journey through life together.

Thats what I saw...

ya exsactly i be reading some stuff that ppl post and they just be over thinking shit too much i mean not to say some songs aint in depth and shit but some ppl just be trying to make a god damn riddle out of shit and that steers ppl wrong who read shit its simple its about love and a guy loves her soo much but she's lost in the world and can't see what she has what the real meaning of life is he sees something more than all this bullshit around us in this world and he...