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Please note that these are referral or affiliate links from which may receive, at no additional cost to you, a commission if you should make any purchases through them. The truth however is that people with addiction often have wonderful dreams of living a healthy clean life, being a good husband and father and friend and employee.Disclosure: The following links will take you to various online merchants outside of that sell recordings with the song featured on this page. You feel like everyone thinks you are a sorry SOB that only cares about themselves because why else would you continue to hurt people and lie to people. It really and truly sucks to be hated and when you are stuck in an addiction you inevitably HAVE to tell lies in order to keep the addiction going. It’s easy to assume that the addict doesn’t care about the consequences of his behaviors, but: It is just hard to be empathetic or sympathetic to the person who is at fault. However, rarely does anyone think about or even care about how the person who has done the hurting feels. When you have hurt people like that you are very aware of their pain and how you are the cause of it. I am a recovering alcoholic and drug addict and my actions have hurt very badly the people that I love and care about the most in my life. This song has special meaning to me because it is exactly how I have felt multiple times throughout my life. I believe this song is a cry for help, and an attempt by the alcoholic to explain how it feels to personally deal with the terrible disease of alcoholism. They suffer tremendously when they understand how they have hurt others. Often the evil things they say to others are merely projecting their own low self worth onto others. The alcoholic can say and do truly mean and hurtful things when drinking, for which they are ashamed, but powerless to stop. It's how alcohol completely changes the person's behavior and in particular how they respond/react to those around them, even those who they love, often in very hurtful ways. For those who are not familiar with what its like to live with an alcoholic, these lyrics seem to totally fit the mindset of an alcoholic (as I understand that mindset, being a non-alcoholic spouse of an alcoholic.) Being an alcoholic is not just about "drinking too much".
I totally agree with the interpretation that this is about person (perhaps Pete) dealing with alcoholism or other drug abuse. He actually feels like he needs people to protect him from himself even though he causes widespread damage to others without any real introspection: He has no control over his own emotions and impulses and is super concerned about what people think about him: He feels again like a unique victim but he can never take responsibility for mistakes: He is a lonely person who reacts violently and disproportionately to perceived criticism and ruminates on the things that offend him: This song perfectly sums up Donald Trump: -He's always a victim he knows he's a bad man, behind those blue eyes who is, somehow, involuntarily fated to telling only lies (even though he knows very deep down that it's wrong- he does have a conscience): I read along time ago, the inspiration for the villain character, and for the lyrics, was some record executive (who I guess Pete did not think much of), but once he read the lyrics back to himself, he was surprised to find the lyrics reminded him of himself as much as the record executive. It is not about nazis, being gay, or drugs. But the songwriter's intended meaning of the lyrics when he wrote the song, is what is listed above. Like any song lyrics, how you interpret it is up to you, or it may have a special meaning for you, and that is all good. The "behind blue eyes" refers to the thoughts and feelings of the villain, in his head, behind his eyes. It is written from the point of view of the "villain" character (from the story that compromises the "lifehouse project"), showing even bad people have emotions like the rest of us. Of course, a great deal of that aborted project would end up on the album "Who's Next", including this song. The song "Behind Blue Eyes" was originally part of Pete Townshend's "lifehouse project", which was shelved.