This song serves as a warning. With all the bad things that people do to us and that happen to us, we have to just brush it off. "Black Eyes" tell us that if we let ourselves be affected by these things, and if we let ourselves react to them the way we are humanly capable of reacting, we will ultimately loose.
At the Oct. 15 show in Chicago Ben elaborated on this song. According to him the song is about spousal abuse. Specifically, it is about an abusive alcoholic who beats his wife. One day, fed up with taking it, she packs up all her belongings and flees. Outraged by her unwillingness to be submissive he sets out to find her and punish her for disobeying him.
At the Oct. 15 show in Chicago Ben elaborated on this song. According to him the song is about spousal abuse. Specifically, it is about an abusive alcoholic who beats his wife. One day, fed up with taking it, she packs up all her belongings and flees. Outraged by her unwillingness to be submissive he sets out to find her and punish her for disobeying him.
This song serves as a warning. With all the bad things that people do to us and that happen to us, we have to just brush it off. "Black Eyes" tell us that if we let ourselves be affected by these things, and if we let ourselves react to them the way we are humanly capable of reacting, we will ultimately loose.
At the Oct. 15 show in Chicago Ben elaborated on this song. According to him the song is about spousal abuse. Specifically, it is about an abusive alcoholic who beats his wife. One day, fed up with taking it, she packs up all her belongings and flees. Outraged by her unwillingness to be submissive he sets out to find her and punish her for disobeying him.
At the Oct. 15 show in Chicago Ben elaborated on this song. According to him the song is about spousal abuse. Specifically, it is about an abusive alcoholic who beats his wife. One day, fed up with taking it, she packs up all her belongings and flees. Outraged by her unwillingness to be submissive he sets out to find her and punish her for disobeying him.