Behind Your Eyes

Jon Foreman's "Behind Your Eyes" is a quiet, intimate plea for vulnerability, built around the image of seeing "the world behind your eyes" — a request to be let past someone's defenses and into the private, unguarded place where their real fear and feeling live. The opening lines admit that letting feelings go is frightening, that there's something scary waiting to be found. The singer confesses he's on her street, that she's always on his mind, and asks her to let him in tonight so he can see that hidden world. The second verse turns the lens on both of them: they're trying to reach the other side, and their "treachery is love" — they're on opposite ends of the same fight, each fighting for themselves and for their lives. The repeated request to see behind her eyes becomes almost a refrain of longing, and the closing lines admit how scared they both are tonight. It's a song about the terrifying intimacy of being truly known, and about love that has to fight through fear and pride to reach the other person.