Behind Blue Eyes – English Lyrics

• By: Tokio Hotel, VIZE
• Album: 2001

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into Tokio Hotel and VIZE's rendition of 'Behind Blue Eyes,' a captivating cover that mixes rock origins with modern electronic elements. Explore the song's poignant lyrics about hidden emotions, and discover how the live music video was uniquely created during a TV show finale, offering a glimpse into German television production .

[English]

I let you go

I'm holding on

I am here but you're long gone

You think you own me, you are wrong again

Blinding lights, impounding veins

Trying to escape our fate

You're pouring gas into the flame again

No one knows what it's like to be the bad man

To be the sad man

Behind blue eyes

No one knows what it's like to be hated

To be faded

To telling only lies

But my dreams, they are as empty

As my conscience seems to be

I have hours

Only lonely

My love is vengeance

That's never free

No turning back

No moving on

In the end, I'm on my own

But I don't wanna be alone again

No one knows what it's like to be the bad man

To be the sad man

Behind blue eyes

No one knows what it's like to be hated

To be faded

To telling only lies

But my dreams, they are just empty

As my conscience seems to be

I have hours

Only lonely

My love is vengeance

That's never free

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Key Grammar Structures

• I let you go

  ➔ Present Perfect

  ➔ The phrase "I let you go" uses the Present Perfect to indicate an action that occurred in the past but has results relevant to the present.

• You think you own me, you are wrong again

  ➔ Present Simple in Indirect Speech

  ➔ The phrase "You think you own me" uses the Present Simple in indirect speech to report a thought or belief without changing the tense.

• No one knows what it's like to be the bad man

  ➔ Present Simple with 'to be'

  ➔ The phrase uses the Present Simple with 'to be' to describe a general truth or state.

• My love is vengeance

  ➔ Present Simple with 'to be'

  ➔ The phrase uses the Present Simple with 'to be' to equate 'my love' with 'vengeance'.

• That's never free

  ➔ Present Simple with Adverb

  ➔ The phrase uses the Present Simple with the adverb 'never' to emphasize a continuous state or condition.