Eyes Open

My album choice is for a band that I originally had no love for or even desired to listen to them after their first single was unleashed on the Australian public. The single in question was Chasing Cars. This was played so much so by the third day I was ready to slit my own throat. Everyone I knew adored it but me. It was not until I heard Hands Open that I realised that they may have something more then what was originally offered.

I ended up getting on YouTube and listening to a few songs and instantly went out and got their album. Besides that one awful song the rest of Eyes Open is great, it also contains two songs that I would now consider in my favorites if I ever had to compile a list of songs. You will see my choices for lyrical content and it will be both of my favorite songs that make my entry.

The album went on to sell an estimated six and a half million copies and is their most successful album to date. The album is what I would describe as an alternative rock album but the two choices of have chosen as lyric choices are an almost saddening rock ballad and fourth single and the other choice was their fifth single which is almost like a faced paced rock song but the lyrics are almost heartbreaking in a way. I hope you guys like my choices and let me know what you think of the choices in this entry.


SET THE FIRE TO THE THIRD BAR

I find the map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms and state lines
The distance from here to where you'd be
It's only finger-lengths that I see

I touch the place
Where I'd find your face
My fingers in creases
Of distant dark places

I hang my coat up in the first bar
There is no peace that I've found so far
The laughter penetrates my silence
As drunken men find flaws in science

Their words, mostly noises
Ghosts with just voices
Your words in my memory
Are like music to me

I'm miles from where you are
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms

After I have traveled so far
We'd set the fire to the third bar
We'd share each other like an island
Until exhausted, Close our eyelids

And dreaming, pick up from
The last place we left off
Your soft skin is weeping
A joy you can't keep in

I'm miles from where you are
I lay on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms

I'm miles from where you are
I lay on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your arms


OPEN YOUR EYES

All this feels strange and untrue
And I wont waste a minute without you
My bones ache, my skin feels cold
And I'm getting so tired and so old

The anger swells in my guts
And I wont feel these slices and cuts
I want so much to open your eyes
Cause I need you to look into mine

Tell me that you'll open your eyes
Tell me that you'll open your eyes
Tell me that you'll open your eyes
Tell me that you'll open your eyes

Get, get out, get away from these liars
Cause they don't get your soul or your fire
Take my hand, knot your fingers through mine
And we'll walk from this dark room for the last time

Every minute from this minute now
We can do what we like anywhere
I want so much to open your eyes
Cause I need you to look into mine

Tell me that you'll open your eyes
Tell me that you'll open your eyes
Tell me that you'll open your eyes
Tell me that you'll open your eyes

Tell me that you'll open your eyes
Tell me that you'll open your eyes
Tell me that you'll open your eyes
Tell me that you'll open your eyes

All this feels strange and untrue
And I wont waste a minute without you