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“Eyes Wide Open” By Gotye

July 3, 2012 by Craig DiLouie Leave a Comment

Very cool animated music video for the song “Eyes Wide Open” by Gotye, which appears to show aliens visiting Earth in the future and trying to discover why we failed as a species.

Some people worry about the end of the world, but I believe we are already living in it due to environmental resource depletion and climate change. This kind of apocalypse doesn’t require a bug-out bag, just the resilience to endure a slightly lower quality of life every year, a little more poverty, a little more uncertainty–while also enduring the pain of seeing our children given a world that is not better than we were given.

Here are the lyrics to the song:

With our eyes wide open, we…
With our eyes wide open, we…

So this is the end of the story,
Everything we had, everything we did,
Is buried in dust,
And this dust is all that’s left of us.
But only a few ever worried.

Well the signs were clear, they had no idea.
You just get used to living in fear,
Or give up when you can’t even picture your future.

We walk the plank with our eyes wide open.

We walk the plank with our eyes wide open, we…
(Walk the plank with our eyes wide open, we…)
Yeah, we walk the plank with our eyes wide open, we…
(Walk the plank with our eyes wide open.)

Some people offered up answers.
We made out like we heard, they were only words.
They didn’t add up to a change in the way we were living,
And the saddest thing is all of it could have been avoided.

But it was like to stop consuming’s to stop being human,
You’ll want to make a change if you won’t.
We’re all in the same boat, staying afloat for the moment.

We walk the plank with our eyes wide open, we…
(Walk the plank with our eyes wide open, we…)
Yeah we walk the plank with our eyes wide open, we…
(Walk the plank with our eyes wide open.)
We walk the plank with our eyes wide open,
We walk the plank with our eyes wide open,
We walk the plank with our eyes wide open, we…

With our eyes wide open, we walk the plank, we walk the plank.
With our eyes wide open, we walk the plank, we walk the plank, we walk the plank.
With our eyes wide open, we walk the plank, we walk the plank.

That was the end of the story.

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