#eyes open

[hope-ur-ok]

She really loves Tokyo

#taylor swift #the eras tour #the hunger games songs from district 12 & beyond #eyes open #live audio

[corneliaavenue]

taylor wrote “everybody’s waiting for you to break down, everybody’s watching to see the fall out, even when you’re sleeping keep you’re eyes open” and then put it on the Hunger Games soundtrack so we would not ask questions about her mental health even though that song was so written about her

#eyes open #taylor swift

[tswiftupdatess]

Tonight's surprise songs are:

Eyes Open 🎸

Electric Touch 🎹

#taylor swift #the eras tour #acoustic set #surprise songs #electric touch #eyes open #album #taylorswift #tokyo night 2 #february 8 #swifties #eras tour #speak now #red

[evermoredeluxe]

Eyes Open speech + performance at The Eras Tour in Tokyo, Japan (N2) on February 8, 2024 (x)

#eras tour tokyo 1 #surprise song guitar #surprise songs #eras tour #eyes open #taylor swift #arshia talks

[everswift]

i'm also gonna force a discussion about eyes open down everyone's throats. the lyrics obviously tie in well with the narrative on the hunger games but i always thought it was interesting to interpret it as a disillusionment with fame, especially considering it sits right between the speak now and red eras, sort of like a bridge between the optimism in long live (winning battles with our wooden swords!!!) and the weariness in the lucky one (everybody's waiting for you to breakdown)

it feels almost like foreshadowing for the reputation era like. so so so so so so so so so underrated

#taylor swift #eyes open

[forevermmore]

no because officially, eyes open and safe & sound are taylor’s songs for the hunger games soundtrack BUT unofficially, out of the woods, sweet nothing, willow, i know places, the lakes, treacherous, the archer, mirrorball, peace, THE GREAT WAR, are all songs that i could never ever separate from katniss and peeta and i love that for those of us who have been listening to taylor forever and got back into their hunger games phase this year !!!!!!

#every taylor swift song is about them idc #taylor swift #taylor’s version #eyes open #safe and sound #the hunger games #everlark #katniss and peeta

[swiftieinbrazil]

Taylor Swift performing Eyes Open as the 1st surprise song at The Eras Tour on February 8th, 2024 in Tokyo, Japan - (x)

#taylor swift #tswiftedit #the eras tour #taylor swift gifs #tswiftgif #tswift gif #tswiftgifs #tstheerastour #tokyotstheerastour #surprise songs #surprise song #eyes open #the hunger games

[andichoseyou]

Eras Tour surprise songs parallels

February 8, 2024—Tokyo, Japan: Eyes Open / Electric Touch

#taylor swift #taylurking #my edit #tswiftedit #candy swift #ts edit #tsedit #tswiftlyrics #ts lyrics #lyrics #parallels #eyes open #electric touch #speak now (taylor’s version) #eras tour surprise songs

[ourlastkiss]

keep your aim locked the night goes dark keeeeep your eYeYeYes oooPEEEENNNN

#taylor swift #eyes open

[cowboylikedean]

the thing about eyes open, too, is that it’s always overshadowed by safe and sound, but I think it’s much more profound

taylor wrote safe and sound for the movie. she wrote eyes open while reading the book. eyes open was taylor, real live 2011 taylor, reading the hunger games and feeling connected to and drawn to katniss. knowing, as we do, that nothing new and the lucky one is how she was feeling... we can see what eyes open has meant.

she was terrified, knowing that everyone was waiting for her to mess up... so she was standing her ground. the second half of 2012 and everything that happened after was fucking awful, and honestly, her biggest fear. and she bore it open and honest for us in eyes open.

it’s so vulnerable and so raw but it gets overlooked because safe and sound is more indie... in summation, i would die for eyes open

#taylor #eyes open

[tswiftupdatess]

Taylor's speech before playing Eyes Open:

''I can't remember ever playing this song live before but I love this one and I really, really relate to it and It resonates me a lot.''

#taylor swift #eyes open #the eras tour #tokyo night 2 #acoustic set #surprise songs #taylorswift #february 8 #swifties #taylor's version #red tv #eras tour

[luhafraser]

can never not laugh at the fact sam always kisses with his eyes open 🤣

#sam heughan #outlander #eyes open

[dream-this-nightmare-over]

katniss: eyes open

lucy gray: cant catch me now

snow: everybody wants to rule the world

#the hunger games #katniss everdeen #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow #taylor swift #olivia rodrigo #lorde #eyes open #cant catch me now #everybody wants to rule the world #hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #bosas

[darkmatternova]

🎶Everybody’s waiting for you to breakdown, everybody’s waiting watching to see the fall out, even when your sleeping keep your eyes open!🎶 ~ taylor swift “eyes open”

I really wanted to give a good explanation for this piece ,since I don’t talk much about what happens in the beginning of my story that leads up to Mira and Warp’s relationship.

So first thing, my story takes place a few years after the show, time has changed a few things and I kinda place the opening of the story right in the midst of Warp realizing he’s been ratted out to Zurg, who now knows that Warp’s been working undercover with Buzz to stop this plan Zurg’s has been working on.

So yes, a good portion of this story is Warp’s redemption arch. Also important information, well I think so anyway, is this is a decision Warp makes on his own, he reaches out to buzz himself, there are things that lead up to warp wanting to make this decision I’ll get into another time . Anyway in this moment in time is relatively soon after Warp has left Zurg and word as spread like wild fire on both good and evil sides about it, obviously Zurg has a death rule about leaving, so there is a pretty large bounty on Warp’s head and no warp decides not to relocate and hide, he looks at it as it’s his karma, he caused it and he needs to fix what he’s fucked up. As for the good side other ,than buzz

(and commander, kinda, he had to be involved with buzz and warp working undercover for the last year or so to get more information about this plan zurg was trying to do…no one else in star command knew about it)

No one trusts warp, for obvious reasons, Mira even tried to talk buzz out of continuing the mission (once she learned about it, which is also one reason she kinda get put in said mission….). But as shown in the comic, Buzz and Warp grew up together, not a lot of people know that, even commander thought they met in the academy. ( @the-musical-cc and @papermacheta had a lot of part coming up with that head cannon) Buzz has a deeper understanding of warp and his past (again not many people know cause warp doesn’t like to talk about his childhood) which is why he holds on to the idea that warp would come back, he knows the other side of him that no one else has seen or met.

As for being in the hospital, again karma, well to warp anyway. The arm Zurg used for Warp was experimental, in other words worked when attached to a body however, not built with materials that should be attached to a body, so the arm was slowly poisoning warp…and kinda also rotting his shoulder off (or well starting to,I don’t even wanna know how heavy the damn thing was)

Now as for the song! I feel this song really captures that moment in time perfectly,Taylor isn’t signing this about herself, she is signing it as a warning to someone. It really fits the idea of buzz putting this out as a warning to warp, (so yes this song is from Buzz to warp) he has Warp’s back,but he knows warp needs to watch his back himself, he knows people will use his past against him, rather it’s his mistakes or traumas from his childhood.

#disney #fanart #pixar #blosc #fan art #buzz lightyear of star command #warp darkmatter #alien #buzz lightyear #comic #taylor swift #eyes open #song challenge #headcanon

[mmemirrorball]

any other hunger games swifties streaming safe and sound tv and eyes open tv non stop this week just giggling and kicking their feet or is it just me 🤭🤭🤭🤭

#ONLY A FEW DAYS UNTIL TBOSAS #safe and sound #eyes open #thg #the hunger games #tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #lucy gray baird #taylor swift #swifties #taylor nation #taylors version #bookish #bookish swifties 🫶🫶🫶

[foxes-that-run]

Eyes Open

Eyes Open was the second song Taylor wrote for Hunger Games. Taylor wrote it from Katniss' perspective and said she reflected on how our society compares to that in the book. To me X-Factor was part inspiration for it.

Eyes Open has the best lyric video of all, and it is from 2012! The stop motion and stationary bringing a childlike quality to a song about anxiety and losing innocence for cruel competition. ‘Eyes’ only appears in green or black, there is one eyes on purple paper for Speak Now, Taylors then Era.

What Taylor Said

At the VH1 Storytellers event at Harvey Mudd, Taylor Introduced it by saying it was interesting to get into the mindset of a character and:

When I started writing this song I started kind of applying it to life. How we're all kind of pinned up against each other. In school, in society, in like whatever celebrity world whatever it is. Everyone is like pinned up against each other like it's this weird competition. And so I wrote this song kinda based on Katniss running through a forest being chased by people but also, you know, the kind of society that we live in compared to the society she lives in.

Timeline

Eyes Open was registered in 2012. It was recorded at Pain in the Art Studio in Nashville. I was likely recorded in the first 3 weeks of the year. Taylor was in Nashville 12 January, 2012 when she performed Safe and Sound at a Civil Wars concert. It would have been complete before 23 January when Taylor was back in London. Thank you @cntfightmydemonsthyknowhowtoswim for your mad time skills.

Live Performances and 17 March

Taylor has played it live only ever three times:

17 March 2012, 2nd last Speak Now concert. 3 days before album.

15 October 2012, the day after Taylor performed on X-Factor UK.

17 October 2012, at the VH1 Storytellers event where she gave the above introduction.

When Taylor introduced it on 17 March she said: "Eyes Open ... I can't wait for you to hear, I'm really excited about it. I mean you don’t think I’ll get in trouble if I played it now?" The soundtrack was not out yet.

Eyes Open (Taylors Version) was released in the More Chapters on 17 March, 2023. Exactly 11 years after Taylor first played it live. At the time, this seemed random, yes Eras, but they were 3 deep cut re-records and a Lover vault released at a seemingly odd time.

So why 17 March? On 17 March, 2011, Taylor first played the mash-up of Fearless and Trains' Soul Sister, in Paris. Soul Sister was Harry's X-Factor Audition song, Harry was in Europe and not seen for days around that show. Taylor was then in London on the 20th when Harry performed in the X-factor tour at the O2. Post about that here. Taylor also included 16 March 2011 in the Lover Journal which mention a 4th grade book report and career anxiety, relevant to this song.

X-factor inspiration

The parallel between X-Factor and Hunger Games is not difficult to draw. In fact in 2013 even Simon Cowell did. As have 2012 contestant Ella Henderson and 2009 contestant Olly Murs. The second time Taylor played Eye's Open was also the day after she performed on X-Factor UK, which, to me, hints at the similarity in this song.

In January 2012 X-Factor was a UK reality show, in their first US interviews One Direction kept explaining what it was. Yet Taylor was not only familiar, but related to it. Which, the 2011 timeline covers. It seems they were friendly at that time.

Lyrics

Everybody's waiting Everybody's watching Even when you're sleeping Keep your ey-eyes open

The first verse sets the tension in the song, everybody is waiting and watching to see what happens, both in the Hunger Games, talent shows and celebrities. Throughout the song, it goes without saying each verse applies to the book, so I will focus more on the celebrity and X-factor angle.

The tricky thing is yesterday we were just children Playing soldiers, just pretending Dreaming dreams with happy endings In backyards, winning battles with our wooden swords But now we've stepped into a cruel world Where everybody stands and keeps score Keep your eyes open

While this verse applies in the book, I think it is where the comparison to a society with X-factor is most apparent. This verse speaks of someone who has experienced the cruel and competitive world speaking to someone naive to it. Taylor was 6 years (1/4 of her life) past her first record deal. In January 2012 Harry was younger and only 13 months into his first record deal. She worked for years to reach the point Harry found himself in overnight and potentially not ready for it.

On December 28 and 29 2011 Taylor posted these three photos, one with her face at sunset on a western coast (or early sunrise in the east) captioned 'childhood beach memories revisited', one with snow on a beach & safe and sound lyrics. It's unclear where they were taken, Taylor was not seen for weeks, it did snow on the beach in Liverpool that year. The lyrics in this verse of Eyes Open indicate a childhood she considered over christmas juxtaposed to fame.

Everybody's waiting for you to break down Everybody's watching to see the fallout Even when you're sleeping, sleeping Keep your ey-eyes open Keep your ey-eyes open Keep your ey-eyes open

Taylor repeated eye's open as a warning and others watching in other songs:

Wonderland: "I should have slept with one eye open at night" and "But there were strangers watching and whispers turned to talking"

I Don’t Wanna Live Forever: "Been sitting eyes wide open behind these four walls, hoping you’ll call"

Safe And Sound: "Just close your eyes"

Mirrorball: "Drunk as they watch my shattered edges glisten"

I know places “It's a scene, and we're out here in plain sight / I can hear them whisper as we pass by”

Run: We can go where our eyes can take usGo where no one else is, run

So here you are, two steps ahead and staying on guard Every lesson forms a new scar They never thought you'd make it this far But turn around (turn around) Oh, they've surrounded you It's a showdown (showdown) And nobody comes to save you now But you've got something they don't Yeah, you've got something they don't You just gotta keep your eyes open

This verse applies equally to Katniss as it does celebrity.

In particular the 'make it this far' and scars is reminiscent of overnight fame from a tv show. On 23 November 2011 the One Direction: A Year in the Making special (25 minutes) was released where Harry cried as he spoke about searching for online hate and an uncomfortable obsession with his personal life.

Everybody's waiting for you to break down Everybody's watching to see the fallout Even when you're sleeping, sleeping Keep your ey-eyes open x3 Keep your feet ready Heartbeat steady Keep your eyes open Keep your aim locked The night goes dark Keep your lights open

The closing of the song continues the comparison, that in Katniss's world as it is in a show like X-Factor or celebrity where people are obsessed with the outcome, but also not necessarily the wellbeing of actual people (or characters in Katniss's case) involved.

Taylors parting words are to remain with their eyes open, aim locked and lights open. This is an interesting almost start to several years of a battle hardened Taylor, who wrote about weapons as defensive metaphors for years. This battle metaphor continued though 1989 and reputation.

I Know Places: Cause they got the cages, they got the boxes and guns

Call It What You Want: My castle crumbled overnight, I brought a knife to a gunfight

Only in Lover and Evermore, 7 and 8 years later did Taylor start to talk of setting aside this battle hardened persona.

Daylight: Threw out our cloaks and our daggers because it’s morning now, it’s brighter now, now.

Long story short: When I dropped my sword I threw it in the bushes and knocked on your door and we live in peace.

#Youtube #taylor swift #eyes open #haylor #taylor non album tracks