Gotye – Eyes Wide Open

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  My Interpretation:The video matches this song perfectly! I believe the song is about us bringing ourselves to our own destruction or setting ourselves up for failure. Now whether you want to take that literally or as a relationship coming to an end when you knew it wouldn't last in the first place is up to you. We walked the plank with our eyes wide open because we know the way we live our life isn't right but yet we still refuse to make a change! So "God" or "Aliens" or just a greater being forced to eliminate us because we proven ourselves unworthy, but they aren't happy doing so. So they cover their eyes as the see the wreckage. It could very well just be us destroying ourselves but in the video it shows and explosion in the background as the "creatures" as they travel the Earth. So I don't really agree with the whole global warming thing.
  
  BREAKDOWN
  
  So this is the end of the story,
  Everything we had, everything we did,
  Is buried in dust,
  And this dust is all that's left of us.
  But only a few ever worried.
  
  The Aliens, God, or Greater Being has ended the reign man because we didn't live the way we were supposed to. Very few actually lived the right way.
  
  Well the signs were clear, they had no idea.
  You just get used to living in fear,
  Or give up when you can't even picture your future.
  
  The Bible was right. Or the signs of aliens were real. But as time wen on we stopped believing. Eventually no one really cared anymore and just started living their lives without thinking of the future or the consequences of not living the right way.
  
  Some people offered up answers.
  We made out like we heard, they were only words.
  They didn't add up to a change in the way we were living,
  And the saddest thing is all of it could have been avoided.
  
  People gave us signs. The Bible, paintings etc... But we didn't take it seriously and believe that is was real. We just continued living the way we wanted to. This wouldn't have happened if we just listened.
  
  But it was like to stop consuming is to stop being human,
  You'll want to make a change if you won't.
  We're all in the same boat, staying afloat for the moment.
  
  We think it's to hard to live the right way. To avoid the daily temptations. We all do it, we ALL have to face the consequences.
  
  We walk the plank with our eyes wide open.
  
  We are walking straight into destruction. We know what will happen. But yet we don't try to make a change.

  Flagged Notlemon September 06, 2012   Link

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