Metallica: Eye Of The Beholder Meaning

Song Released: 1988

Eye Of The Beholder Lyrics

Do you see what I see?
Truth is an offence
You silence for your confidence

Do you hear what I hear?
Doors are sliding shut
Limit your imagination, keep you where they must

Do you feel what I feel?
Bittering distress
Who decides what...

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   #1 top rated interpretation:
   Emperorlawson

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   Jun 4th 2007 !⃝

   I believe this song possibly deals with one or two more things. One is perhaps about governments or an elite group of some sort pulling the wool over the citizens' eyes, assuring them that they're free to do what they please and should be happy that way, when their freedoms are actually very restricted...
   
   "Doesn't matter what you see
   Or into it what you read
   You can do it your own way
   If it's done how I say"
   
   ... And about how your true freedom is decided by "Your money and your wealth."
   
   It could also be about how freedom for one sometimes hurts another. The following:
   
   "Freedom of choice
   Choice is made for you my friend"
   
   Could be a reference to abortion, though highly unlikely; about how the choice of the mother can be harmful to the child, saying its choice of whether or not it would like to live is made for it. There's a slight chance this could be possible because Metallica has been thought of as being pro-life, such as when Hetfield says "Infanticide" in Harvester of Sorrow. Though this hasn't really been confirmed.
   
   One more note: Please, no abortion arguments. I'm not personally pro-life. I'm just giving a possible interpretation of a song, not trying to make a political statement on abortion.

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   anonymous

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   Nov 14th 2006 !⃝

   The first one is right or at least closer .. It is about gov..
   
   Read this
   
   you can do it your own way
   if it's done how I say
   
   independence limited
   freedom of choice
   choice is made for you my friend
   freedom of speech
   speech is words that they will bend
   freedom with their exception
3. anonymous

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   Jun 1st 2020 !⃝

   Of course it's about the government. You can translate almost every song on the album to something about the government. Hence "and justice for all".
4. anonymous

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   Nov 20th 2015 !⃝

   I believe that it is a prophecy, which has became reality.
   
   It predicts political correctness in America, like we see now.
5. anonymous

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   Aug 11th 2006 !⃝

   It talks about how life can be preceived in different ways because different personalities see things in different ways. It all depends on the "eye of the beholder".
6. anonymous

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   Dec 30th 2005 !⃝

   From 1895 to 1917, Nicholas had secret police everywhere. You couldn't talk about how bad the government was or you would be killed or sent to Siberia. If you told the truth about the government, it would be considered an offence.
   
   "Do You See What I See?
   Truth is an offence"

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway

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