Eyes Wide Open

Gotye · Making Mirrors [2011]

With our eyes wide open we... [x2]



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

And only a few ever worried



While 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 we)



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 is to stop being human

And why would I 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)

And we walk the plank with our eyes wide open we

(Walk the plank with our eyes wide open we)



We walk the plank with our eyes wide open we

(Walk the plank with our eyes wide open we)

We walk the plank with our eyes wide open we



With our eyes wide open we

We walk the plank, we walk the plank

With our eyes wide open we

We walk the plank, we walk the plank

We walk the plank

With our eyes wide open we

We walk the plank, we walk the plank

With our eyes wide open we



So that is the end of the story