This is because he himself was once in their shoes but has now come to see the light that life is meant to be lived enjoyably. So the implication would be that in terms of encouraging diffident listeners to have fun, the vocalist is qualified to do so. And that’s when he realized it was time to ‘reenter the world’ as opposed to “hiding from” it. In fact he did put down the mic for a good half a decade, which likely explains why there is such a large time gap in his discography.īut eventually, at the onset of the 2020s, Burnham’s mental health improved. This was around the time when he nearly “quit performing live comedy” due to being the victim of “severe panic attacks”. The interlude however is based on his own personal mental state – or at least how it was “five years ago”. Thanks.But this being Bo Burnham, he uses the actual verses (and interlude) to delve into more serious subject matter. The first two verses, as well as the interlude, deal with what we’ve come to recognize as one of his recurrent subject matters, which is mental health, self-esteem, overthinking or however you want to put it when you combine all of such concepts. For instance, in said verses he is encouraging timid onlookers to get into the party mood instead of being “nervous”, “scared”, “shy” or ‘overthinking’ the situation. He assures the unassertive addressees that if they let loose, nothing adverse is going to happen to them. 'They smile and stab my back and I lie and have to laugh' is the same as 'but your eyes look away.' Grreat song, btw! A redundant, thematic element perpetuated through the years. When really, she is having to brunt the blow and take responsbility for something that is beyond her. Instead, the narrator falls every time for all the world to see. There is also a bit of understanding or concern that the subject is depressed but the narrator's attempts to climb that wall are futile. The basic, underlying theme of the song is betrayal, abandonment and the narrator taking the fall for the said things. You move from the s all so far from You!'

And all that you knew slip away.Īnd you hide in your room, and the lights burn away. And the things you choose to be, all eyes on me.but your eyes look s so hard to be someone strung out from today. Through the nothing that you've learned, all eyes on me. They smile and stab my back and I lie and have to laugh.Īnd it won't take long to burn, all eyes on me. You drown in deeper oceans inventing new religions, You hide inside yourself and I wonder what your thinking, and everything you're chasing, it.seems to leave you empty.Īnd it won't take long.to burn, all eyes on me, through the nothing that you've learned, all eyes on me, and the things you choose to be, all eyes on me.īut Your Eyes look s so hard to be someone strung out from today, and all that you knew slip away.

'Daylight burns your sleepy eyes and its hard to see you dreaming, A transmutable song which at times you cannot understand because you are the narrator, yet other times you are the subject.

All eyes on me lyrics