Sum 41 – Open Your Eyes

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Lately,
I'm not quite myself.
Maybe,
I do need some help.
Just my confusion,
Trust my delusion.

Don't you,
Regret you met me.
Go through,
These steps to get me,
Back to where we start,
'Fore I fall apart.

If I could black out,
It'd become so clear,
Standing face-to-face with everything I fear.
Watch so closely,
But still I don't see.
As bad as it seems,
A piece of mind I steal,
An ordinary life,
But consequences real.
I'm past the point of reality.

This isn't me,
This isn't you,
When it's just everything we do.
Till you open up your eyes,
And understand this isn't real.
This isn't me,
This isn't you,
This is everything but true,
Till we come to realize,
It's what we put each other through.

It's like a bad dream,
Coming all so true,
Leaving me with nothing else left to do.
Now so helpless,
I'm not so selfish.
Tell me,
How does it feel to have a face like that,
How does it feel to be replaced like that.
Now so faceless,
Do you still feel?

This isn't me,
This isn't you,
When it's just everything we do.
Till you open up your eyes,
And understand this isn't real.
This isn't me,
This isn't you,
This is everything but true,
Till we come to realize,
It's what we put each other through.

It's hard to believe right now,
This seems to be real.
Still phasing by this time,
So why can't I wake up.

This isn't me,
This isn't you,
When it's just everything we do.
Till you open up your eyes,
And understand this isn't real.
This isn't me,
This isn't you,
This is everything but true,
Till we come to realize,
It's what we put each other through.

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Track duration: 02:45

"Open Your Eyes" as written by Deryck Jason Whibley, Greig Andrew Nori

Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing

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  • +1
    General Comment:This is probably wrong, but it fits with the beat and sounds good. The part after the first chorus under the main vocals could be:

    "You can leave your days without a trace and turns out your life was just a waste now."
    Flag Zxiferon November 28, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Does anyone have the background vocals lyrics for the part right after the first chorus, I think it's something like this

    "Spending days going without a trace and till my thoughts left to waste now"
    Flag Tazdudemanon December 08, 2009   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:This is about RELIGION!!! Religion is just a DELUSION that everyone should understand!!! there is no God!!! it doesn't make sense at all, they just make money from us innocent human beings. Till we open up our eyes that the thing that matters is ourselves and our relationships to other human beings!!! a great great powerful song!!! God doesn't exist at all!!! because if you think he do, you are totally deluded!!! instead our actions are more important than belifes, we have to live like a rational being like being said in this amazign song!!!

    thansk to Deryck Whibley my idol, I wonder if hes' an atheist too like me.
    Flag limoncello182on September 15, 2008   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:i'm pretty sure i kn ow what the song is saying; The world is really just a huge illusion. Everything we see is meaningless, except for the relationships we have with other human beings. The singer says he's confused but thinks that nothing else matters but his relationship with others (mainly the person he is disconnected with - probably a girlfriend). "its had to believe right now, this seems to be real" he's saying that its hard to believe that what we see has to meaning and no significance but if you "open your eyes , and understand this isn't real " you can see that what really matters is the people in our lives and noting else. We need to forget other factor that cause greed and selfishness to see the world for what it is: an illusion (only we are real)
    Flag s-furyon March 16, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:i'm pretty sure i kn ow what the song is saying; The world is really just a huge illusion. Everything we see is meaningless, except for the relationships we have with other human beings. The singer says he's confused but thinks that nothing else matters but his relationship with others (mainly the person he is disconnected with - probably a girlfriend). "its had to believe right now, this seems to be real" he's saying that its hard to believe that what we see has to meaning and no significance but if you "open your eyes , and understand this isn't real " you can see that what really matters is the people in our lives and noting else. We need to forget other factor that cause greed and selfishness to see the world for what it is: an illusion (only we are real)
    Flag s-furyon March 16, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Song is about a break up. He's trying to pretend it isn't real. The girlfriend regrets she met him. He then realizes that they haven't been themselves lately. It's what they're putting each other through what has ended it. They have hurt each other to the extent that they both just can't take it anymore. The girl moves on finds another to replace him. And the guy he still just can't believe it is real. It's like he wants her to remember all the good times they had, but it's hard when she's been hurt more than what has been good. So it's like they're both angry and hurt at the same time. They don't know what to make of each other anymore...
    Flag whiteriveron October 08, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:OK. Ithink I have it the lines behind the main vocals on the paragraph #5 are:
    Spending days trying to trace it,
    don't know if I can find a place now. does that make sense. Imean yeah he's lost and can't find a place to go.I don't know.
    Flag monkeyfundon June 06, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:i think this is an amazing song. its probably my favorite on chuck, either that or 88.
    Flag ERIC_41on April 20, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:i think he has lived his life confused and delusioned and he has now opened his eyes and realised wot life is really like
    Flag The_666_murdereron January 05, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:i think he has lived his life confused and delusioned and he has now opened his eyes and realised wot life is really like
    Flag The_666_murdereron January 05, 2007   Link

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