Evans Blue is a Canadian rock band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada founded in… Read Full Bio ↴Evans Blue is a Canadian rock band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada founded in 2005. The band's name was suggested by Kevin Matisyn, and refers to a dye that is injected into the bloodstream to measure blood volume. They have sold over one million albums worldwide, including five studio albums and one live album. They have released 5 studio albums: The Melody and the Energetic Nature of Volume and The Pursuit Begins When This Portrayal of Life Ends with Kevin Matisyn, who left the group in 2008 and formed Parabelle, and Evans Blue, Graveyard of Empires and Letters from the Dead with Dan Chandler, who replaced Matisyn after his departure.

Underwater
Evans Blue Lyrics

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We start to run
Before we crawl
Run, until we fall

Take a piece of me
Take my eyes
Throw me down
And watch me go blind

But if you see through my eyes like mine
Look past the pain, the memories,
The hollow world you keep inside
So we can rise again. We

Know how it feels to be numb inside and underwater
Know now the enemy
Is alive and undercover

Make peace with me
Free my mind

And wrap my head around
This life and realize

Overall Meaning

that
We've been living underwater

The lyrics are about the struggles of life, how people tend to run towards their goals without taking the time to slow down and properly assess their situation. It's like trying to skip a few steps and ending up falling flat on your face. People tend to make rash decisions and take shortcuts, hoping to reach their desired outcome quickly without realizing the consequences that follow. It emphasizes the idea of understanding the journey before reaching the destination.

The lyrics also explain how people tend to hurt others for their benefit, how they use others as stepping stones to climb up the ladder of success. Here the singer talks about how someone took a piece of him, took his eyes, and threw him down just to watch him go blind. This can be interpreted as a metaphor to society and the people in it, how they tend to hurt others just to climb up the societal ladder without caring about the consequences or the people they hurt. The lyrics explain how people should look past the pain and the memories and the corrupt world and realize that they need to rise again, despite the struggles.

Line by Line Meaning

We start to run
We rush into things before fully understanding them

Before we crawl
We skip the basic steps of understanding and preparation

Run, until we fall
We keep going until we hit a wall or reach our breaking point

Take a piece of me
Take a part of who I am

Take my eyes
Take away my ability to see and perceive things

Throw me down
Knock me off my feet

And watch me go blind
Leave me disoriented and confused

But if you see through my eyes like mine
If you can understand me and relate to what I'm going through

Look past the pain, the memories,
Don't be blinded by the negative experiences and memories we carry with us

The hollow world you keep inside
Don't let the emptiness and loneliness you feel consume you

So we can rise again. We
So we can overcome the challenges and difficulties in our lives