More Than Meets the Eye Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Paulius 

Cover art for More Than Meets the Eye lyrics by TestAmenT

This song can also be understood straight-forward:

In the first part, the person is stubborn, doesn't want to know or see anything for some reason. He just wants to remain narrow-minded, and won't ever change. This may be compared to early teenage life.

In his "next chapter of life", he fights everyone, calls them voices he doesn't want to hear. His dreams may mean that he somehow is intrigued by those "voices", but forces himself to remain on his own path. But later understands that it may not be his true path, so it calls it "upside down". Could mean somewhere in the middle of the mentioned teen age.

The last part is where the person is mature, he decides to "turn his life around": no longer fights those ideals. but joins them. "The demons" are probably the same thing as those "voices", but instead of being haunted, he chases them.

This whole song can be compared to almost every metalhead's life. Most of us (talking mostly about the new generation, including myself) started listening to it in the teen age. Our parents forced us to stereotype Metal, and so we did, until we started listening to it, understanding it. Now we are chasing the demons because they're something difficult to understand, etc, also learning what it true music. Thank you, Metal! \m/

My Interpretation

Sorry for a few grammar mistakes here and there.