anonymous May 23rd, 2008 07:53PM  
I know this probably isn't right, but I feel like it could be interpreted like this in a English teacher type a way (I'm not an English teacher by the way)
I feel like it's about the world going to crap,

"All this feels strange and untrue, and I won't waste a minute without you.
My bones ache, my skin feels cold, and I'm getting so tired, and so old"

It's like the world is turned against him. Then he makes a reference to cutting himself in anger that "swells in [his] guts"

Then the chorus, "Tell me that you'll open your eyes." x times. This song is obviously second person, being addressed to someone, and I don't see to much romantic quality. There's just one vague line that says, "Take my hand, knot your fingers through mine, and we'll walk through this dark room for the last time"
But this can hardly be considered as romantic, and instead I interpret it as the singer leading the person he's addressing into the light, which makes sense, because the line before that is
"Get up, get out, get away from these liars, 'cause they don't get your sole or your fire." So once again, he's leading someone away from something.
Then comes "Every minute from this minute now, we can do what we like, anywhere." Like an escape from society, being free from social systems and laws and the world which is going to crap."
Then comes a double chorus and an uber amazingly awesome guitar solo, and then a repeat of the first line.
I got this song because I like the solo, and I never really paid any attention to the lyrics until one day I watched Bowling for Columbine, by Michael Moore, and I listened to it right after, and it all made sense to me. The solo at the end really captures the distress and the pain and the sorrow the world is giving off, it was like the song was bleeding and crying at the same time.

aoreilly5 June 18th, 2008 10:35PM  
This song is extremely emotional and powerful.In my opinion this song describes a tragic scene;a sudden loss of a loved one.

"All this feels strange and untrue
"And I won't waste a minute without you
My bones ache, my skin feels cold
And I'm getting so tired and so old"

Here I picture a hospital scene with the loved one in a coma, the family are told that the loved ones condition is rapidly deteriorating with no hope of survival. The situation is so surreal to the person they almost can't believe it and feel numb, helpless, physically and mentally exhausted.

"The anger swells in my guts
And I won't feel these slices and cuts
I want so much to open your eyes
Cos I need you to look into mine

Tell me that you'll open your eyes"

One of the first stages of grief is anger, here its clear the person is so maddened by the situation and cannot understand how someone the love is dying before them while the ache for the person to open their eyes and touch that persons life once more.

"Get up, get out, get away from these liars
Cos 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"

This part is in my opinion the most profound part of the song. Because the situation is so surreal and the person doesn't want to believe it, he/she begs that together they leave the 'liars' who say this is the end.The others simply don't understand the loved ones importance to the person,they need that person,they can't leave. He/she begs again for response and embrace from the motionless life...to leave the gloomy situation and never have to face it again.

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

The person pleas again and promises that in return for a response they can do anything. They would do anything within their power to see the persons soul again.

"Tell me that you'll open your eyes

All this feels strange and untrue
And I won't waste a minute without you"

The person feels frustrated and panics,they cannot face the pain,they're only hope is to beg.Feeling lost still,the person begins to realize it is really happening and admits 'All this feels strange and untrue'.
They don't know how to go on without the person that meant so much to them.
The loved one will always be missed and remembered.

anonymous July 7th, 2008 09:45AM  
I agree. It feels like it's about the sudden loss of a loved one and you want them to open their eyes and live again. This song was a single around the time my aunty was hit by a bus and died and I recommended it should be played at her funeral but it might be a bit too loud for that. every time I hear the last 2 minutes or so with the guitar and especially at the end where he repeats "all this feels strange and un-true etc" I get a bit teary

anonymous October 30th, 2008 09:13AM  
I think this song is about having splitting up or not been able to have someone or losing someone.

For me, certain words in this song relate to a situation I have been in. I was with someone and I decided to end it as it didn't feel right to be with them as I couldn't give all my time to the relationship as I family issues to look after. It broke my heart to end it but I felt they need to be free from the stress and I walked away from them. Then rumors started that I was seeing someone else and made me look to be a cheater and a lie but I wasn't. Then about a month later he found someone else and he rushed into the relationship to try and forget about me (he has admitted this to me) and he went on to marry her and I stood back and watched it happen even thought id give anything to have him back but as I ended it in the passed I didn't think he would want me. I have found someone else and I am very happy in love with them but what me and the person in question we share something else. This person who he has married is evil she has cut him off from everything in his passed and made him cut up pics of exes etc it makes me angry that she can control him like this and I wish he would just open his eyes!

danygv November 9th, 2008 08:03PM  
to me personally this song is about a guy singing about a significant other not necessarily a girlfriend or boyfriend simply someone that he really cares for, and that person is in a very dark place his or her world has come crashing down and he-her cant find a way out and the singer is there to help hat person. Get up, 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 I don’t think that when he talks about open your eyes it means to literary open your eyes but more like there is a way out if he-her can just see that he is there to help. He is not going anywhere Every minute from this minute now We can do what we like anywhere The person means a lot to the singer he needs he-her as much he-her needs the singer´s help I won't waste a minute without you. I think is a song about true friendship and how we are willing to do whatever it takes for those who we love.

anonymous December 12th, 2008 10:24PM  
I always picture someone in a coma and the person is sitting by the bedside, pleading for this person to wake up... "I want so much to open your eyes, cause I need you to look into mine." It's like this person is saying, "wake up and look into my eyes, so I will know that you will be alright." The one who is waiting gets angry and frustrated at the possibility of losing someone dear and important... "Tell me that you'll open your eyes" "Please, be ok..."

anonymous February 4th, 2009 08:55PM  
I'm not quite sure that it is only about loss. I understand why many would connect to it like that, but that isn't how I see it at all.

I think that Gary (the singer) is trying to get someone he cares about to turn their life around. He asks them, after all, to "open their eyes", which usually means face the truth, and talks about getting "away from these liars" and they will both "walk from this darkness for the last time". It seems like he is really trying to save this person, because he cares for him/her, but is just "getting so tired and so old" watching them hurt themselves and waiting for them to change. I don't think it matters what the problem is exactly, just that he wants them to realize that they have a problem and change it.

AlbertCamus August 1st, 2009 02:28PM  
This is clearly a song for a couple of two men or two women, meaning gay or lesbian:

The situation I picture is the following: Two people begin a relationship, one of them is more mature maybe and more comfortable with the idea of being gay, maybe more independent and self confident. The other one is still in doubt, or doesn't accept him/herself as he/she is and suffers also resistance from the family. So there is a situation of tension.

The singer sings the lyrics so that this more insecure, under pressure beloved person doesn't fall amongst all the doubts, fears and pressures and abandons the relationship. So he asks him to open his eyes. He says they will knot their fingers together and walk out that dark room, meaning the place where they both are not comfortable, accepted and loved... He says then that these people that oppose them as a couple, don't understant his soul (being gay) nor his fire (attraction for another man)... and that they will be able to do what they want once they are away.

Pay attention that on the cover of the album the negative of the two people kissing makes it unidentifiable, if they are from the same sex or not.

This is a song about acceptance of the other as he/she is, not only about gay or lesbian, I see it about politics, religion, anything... Specially in a world where tensions and differences push us to hatred, war, pain...

Snow patrol urges us to open our eyes, and get away from these liars... That try to persuade us ...

Life is already difficult one you have to accept who you are, as you are... we are the biggest critics of ourselves... we suffer and don't need other people, specially ones we love and are important to us, putting pressure on us...

Congratulations to the group that created this song, because they are geniuses and expressed a big problem in a very sutil manner... less is more