There's alot, much alot (like cranking the amp from 10 to 11 alot) to this song than meets these eyes. It's well known the writers went back and forth between naming the song, "these arms" and "these eyes." Why the abrupt change? These arms indicate a teenage premature ejaculation groping, while these eyes delve into the notion of the eyes being the "window of the soul," a transcendent envelopment of space and identity more associated with timeless idealistic love than brutal animal orgasm. From another window, these arms, cry every night for you, and these eyes, long to hold you again, creates yet another dimension, the endless tension between the physical and the symbolic, the creature longing and timelessness of imagination's perpetual eternity. The writer cries that he hurts, that he shall never be free from the hurting, and the source of the hurting is the death the infinite wish, the wish to capture the non-anxious state of childhood omniscience and Egolessness. The world here, of course, is not literal. It is the world of Eden's loss of innocence, world collapse, the war between the objective mind and the timelessness of feelings. Further, that the writer mentions a "vow" can only be interpreted as the groom still waiting at the alter, as Dylan writes, and the sinking understanding the committed other was not honest or authentic, even though it was spoken. The writer implores us to believe he has experienced the loves of Shakespearean templates and archetypes, and therefore he knows the difference between the true love forsaken and the ideal love he must now say goodbye to.
There's alot, much alot (like cranking the amp from 10 to 11 alot) to this song than meets these eyes. It's well known the writers went back and forth between naming the song, "these arms" and "these eyes." Why the abrupt change? These arms indicate a teenage premature ejaculation groping, while these eyes delve into the notion of the eyes being the "window of the soul," a transcendent envelopment of space and identity more associated with timeless idealistic love than brutal animal orgasm. From another window, these arms, cry every night for you, and these eyes, long to hold you again, creates yet another dimension, the endless tension between the physical and the symbolic, the creature longing and timelessness of imagination's perpetual eternity. The writer cries that he hurts, that he shall never be free from the hurting, and the source of the hurting is the death the infinite wish, the wish to capture the non-anxious state of childhood omniscience and Egolessness. The world here, of course, is not literal. It is the world of Eden's loss of innocence, world collapse, the war between the objective mind and the timelessness of feelings. Further, that the writer mentions a "vow" can only be interpreted as the groom still waiting at the alter, as Dylan writes, and the sinking understanding the committed other was not honest or authentic, even though it was spoken. The writer implores us to believe he has experienced the loves of Shakespearean templates and archetypes, and therefore he knows the difference between the true love forsaken and the ideal love he must now say goodbye to.