Limp Bizkit: Behind Blue Eyes Meaning

Song Released: 2003

Behind Blue Eyes Lyrics

No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes
And no one knows
What it's like to be hated
To be fated to telling only lies

[Chorus:]
But my dreams they aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I...

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   anonymous

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   Jul 11th 2016 !⃝

   This song is about Bastiaan Steeghs and how he destroyed a woman who more than loved him, believed in him,was loyal to him, almost lost her life from the loss of him and his rejection of her. He feels hated because he knows what he's done to her is wrong. He's acts of betrayal to a level of overkill. It kills him to know she still loves him regardless. He's too selfish to understand. It kills him to know he's inflicted such pain onto her and that he did so in the name of self serving betrayal. This song is about the duality of Bas and how he looses the people who love him the most to himself. His pain self inflicted as much as he wants otherwise his actions will not allow it. This song is about the consequences suffered when one person cannot be true and do the right thing. While he may not care about it all in the future his heart and soul still pay a price for inflicting such pain on those who cherish him.

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   Sep 9th 2019 !⃝

   I wish I knew, found this song written in notes my daughter had, she died of an accidental overdose this year
3. anonymous

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   Mar 11th 2024 !⃝

   I personally like to interpret this song to be about God. I think about how lonely it could be to be the only man (being) to create and control our world. When people experience a tragedy, who do they usually direct their blame and hate to? To be a being so full of love and to have no one to share it with on a personal level must be difficult. He created us, with all our negative and positive emotions, it only makes sense to me that ever though He is a much,much more intelligent being that he most likely feels all the same emotions that we experience. He alone created us, I can't even imagine what a lonely existence that could be,especially in today's age where so many people don't even believe in him. I apologize if I offended anyone, but this is my own personal interpretation.
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   Sep 24th 2023 !⃝

   I thought it was sung by limp bizkit as a dig at Britney spears,I don't remember who said this to me but it was years ago when I was walking home from school.a friend had told me. So for years i thought it was about Britney spears
   
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   Sep 6th 2023 !⃝

   The song is describing a misunderstood man that had lived a dark and lonely life until he met someone.
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   Sep 1st 2023 !⃝

   Supposedly, belonging to a minority race, I interpret this song by young white men meaning that they were raised in prejudiced homes so they're feeling they have to keep up the falsehood of being superior to others thou it is a painful life to them.
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   Jun 12th 2023 !⃝

   Behind blue eyes could also be prophecy of today ...
   
   What race has blue eyes / mostly white men.
   
   what race is bad,sad, hated / fated to telling lies.
   my love is vengeance ... Luke 21:22
   You can only tell people for so long their the blame everything. One day they won't be able to take the pointing fingers the lies against them and get revenge . Vengeance belongs to God not the white man or any man.
   Our history is being rewritten anything bad belongs to the white man / the man w/blue eyes.
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   Apr 9th 2023 !⃝

   I think it’s a song based upon an individual losing one’s self to a toxic relationship “ no one knows what it’s like, to be the bad man, to be the sad man”. I think limp was expressing what it’s like to be a sociopath in love w a loyal person. That loyal person keeps running back and then has sad eyes.
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   Jan 2nd 2023 !⃝

   Behind Blue Eyes Lyrics
   
   No one knows what it's like
   To be the bad man
   To be the sad man
   Behind blue eyes
   And no one knows
   What it's like to be hated
   To be fated to telling only lies
   
   My interpretation:
   It wasn’t his fault in the first place why he became the way he became. That’s how I interpreted this song. Not his fault at all. All he need is love ❤️ to make it all okay.
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    Dec 10th 2021 !⃝

    A boy named Marty, back in the '70s,in Southern Illinois."They" persecuted him for years, but he finally stopped running. He's almost got all the pieces together, now he waits.
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    Dec 3rd 2018 !⃝

    In the book "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers,this song rrelates to this book because the way that this song, “Behind the Blue Eyes” betrays Steve’s feelings is almost unbelievable. Sometimes in life it's not weather you have solid evidence, but how other people betray the scene into other people's minds. Mrs. Henry, Steve's attorney was trying to place in the jury's mind that he was not the reason that all of this took place and that it was James King’s fault, and not Steve's.
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    Feb 1st 2018 !⃝

    It is obvious that, however it is a cover, the meaning of the song is different than the original from The Who.
    
    If I look to the songvideo from Limp Bizkit and the lyrics of they'r version of the song. My interpretation of meaning is: a Psychologist explains to a client how that client feels to let that person know, I do know what is like to have these feelings in a way of reconition. Also to give the message. People can say about you whatever they want ... and sure, everybody has a meaning. But you are not a heartless machine you to have dreams to chase. Don't fall in depression.
    
    But everybody will have they're own interpretation of the of meaning about this song... and thats fine
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    Dec 5th 2017 !⃝

    This song was written by Pete Townsend and originally sung by Roger Daltry of The Who the 1960's to present day English mod/rock band in 1971, so probably not about Bastiaan Steeghs...

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