And the reason Burnham is compelled to go out of his way to espouse such a disposition is obviously because he is able to perceive that there are ample factors floating about which may conversely be depressing us or causing individuals to sink into a shell.īut that said, even though it took Burnham almost seven years between the release of his third live album, What (2013) and this one, which is entitled Inside (The Songs), Inside may prove to be the most-successful yet. Having just come out on 10 June 2021, seemingly as a self-released project, as of the writing of this post the latter does not have a chart history to report of. The above is also, we will conclude, the thesis sentiment of the song itself.
#All eyes on me lyrics free
“where everybody knows your name”. In other words, what it all points back to is this admonishment for the listeners to feel free and relax. The pre-chorus is also pretty interesting, where Bo speaks of himself and the audience going to place “where everybody knows”, though said location is left unspecified. It may be that he’s interpolating, in a manner of speaking, the Cheers theme song, i.e. Third VerseĪnd the third verse is also related to that concept, in a way. Here, Bo is putting forth his reluctance to get bent out of shape as a result of the harrowing bad news we deal with on a daily basis. It isn’t so much that he is ignoring the pressing issues of the day as it is the vocalist coming to the realization that in the grand scheme of things, there’s only so much he can do anyway. Or as Burnham poetically puts it, ‘the world has already ended’. This is because he himself was once in their shoes but has now come to see the light that life is meant to be lived enjoyably. So the implication would be that in terms of encouraging diffident listeners to have fun, the vocalist is qualified to do so. And that’s when he realized it was time to ‘reenter the world’ as opposed to “hiding from” it. In fact he did put down the mic for a good half a decade, which likely explains why there is such a large time gap in his discography.īut eventually, at the onset of the 2020s, Burnham’s mental health improved. This was around the time when he nearly “quit performing live comedy” due to being the victim of “severe panic attacks”.
The interlude however is based on his own personal mental state – or at least how it was “five years ago”. But this being Bo Burnham, he uses the actual verses (and interlude) to delve into more serious subject matter. The first two verses, as well as the interlude, deal with what we’ve come to recognize as one of his recurrent subject matters, which is mental health, self-esteem, overthinking or however you want to put it when you combine all of such concepts. For instance, in said verses he is encouraging timid onlookers to get into the party mood instead of being “nervous”, “scared”, “shy” or ‘overthinking’ the situation. He assures the unassertive addressees that if they let loose, nothing adverse is going to happen to them.
0 kommentar(er)
