About My Song “Eye For An Eye”

There’s more than meets the eye to my song, “Eye For An Eye.”

The song is shining a light on our heated interpersonal relationships. It seems that everybody wants to get something out of everybody else. Everyone’s out for themselves, and at all costs, even if it hurts another. In our modern, heavily transactional culture, if I give you something, I expect something in return. Doubly, if you take something from me, I’m gonna take something from you in return. This “thing” can be a physical or non-physical/intangible thing. Everything is very transactional in our world, not just because of money, but because there’s a widespread perception of lack – the idea and belief that there’s not enough, and because of that, a widespread mentality is “I gotta get mine.”

Meaning Behind The Lyrics

The verses of the song explain what I believe is happening in the real world and the chorus is a satire of how people are acting due to the conditions of the real world. The bridge is a chant that echoes the satirical sentiment of the chorus.

Getting out ahead of what is inevitably going to trigger in some – in this context, we are not applying the concept that “everyone is responsible for their own life and happiness. ” While this is a true and exacting universal law, by design of those in power, the masses do not know that. With this song and much that I do, I’m meeting society and the average individual where they’re at, not where they could or should be. You can’t speak to someone in Mandarin and expect them to just learn Mandarin. Unfortunately, many spiritual and truly awakened people tend to stick their head in the sand, leaving the masses to fend for themselves. I respect and understand why those people do that, but that’s not how I roll. This song is intended to make a very specific point in redirecting your energy from hating or blaming your neighbor to blaming and fixing the systems that are in place.

The Verses

The verses propose the idea that most of us, consciously or otherwise, place a lot of blame on our family, our friends, our work, and other peer members of our community. While many of us know that the people in power are responsible for much of our distress and are syphoning off our energy, we have no way of taking it back from them or changing that dynamic without sacrificing foundational aspects of our live. This leads us to turn our anger and blame on those right in front of us. But of course, we can see it with our own eyes!

“He took my parking spot! She got the role I auditioned for! Dad took my phone away! She stole my man!”

While sometimes these people do indeed take from us, they are not the ones that are taking the biggest part of us. Unless it’s a toxic relationship, your neighbor, your friend, your lover, your parent, your brother, your sibling – they are not causing you the intense distress and anger we often react with when someone slights us.

This song encourages people to look at the whole picture and see who’s actually taking what from you. Who is actually taking your freedom? Who is taking your money? Who is taking your spirit?Who is taking your energy? Who is taking your free will? It’s the millennium king and court. And what I mean by that is our leaders of today. It’s our politicians, but it’s mostly the people that are running tech companies and the banks which tech companies bank and their own way at this point. Tech companies, to some effect, are banks. Just look at crypto. It’s an example of tech company and a bank rolled together in one.

We’re constantly squabbling with each other, trying to take an eye for an eye, fighting for “crumbs of bread half baked.” The people that are up there with the power, watching us fight while raking the money and energy – they are the “enemy.” We should stop and take stock in who the true opposition is. Who are the real people and entities that are siphoning off the energy you need to live a fulfilled life?

The Chorus

Technically, the chorus is actually satirical because the words I’m saying are common words and feelings coming from the people that are enacting these eye for an eye mentalities. On their high horse because they think that their way is the best no matter what. Even if it takes something from you,  it’s what has to be done because there isn’t enough for both of us, right? “I’m gonna ride and get what’s mine.”

As for the phrase “bad bitch,” I believe that it’s always been toxic masculine energy masquerading as divine female energy. It’s saying “I’ll do whatever I want to whoever I want because I’m a bad bitch.” That’s not the mentality that’s going to push society forward. That’s a dog-eat-dog mentality. (Toxic masculine energy.) I like the idea of reclaiming female energy as powerful, but not at the expense of men or others, and that’s what I believe the phrase does. Not everyone who uses this phrase intends to be dominating and bull-dozing, but many people do mean that and words are words; they have a singular frequency and no amount of human intervention can change the frequency of something.

The end of the chorus snaps out of satire and back into reality by saying: okay, you’re free to act like that and live by those eye-for-an-eye mentalities, believing that you have to take from other people to get what you want, but the reality is they are not the enemy. Taking from them isn’t going to fill you up. If we all keep taking eyes each other, we’re all left blind.

– Chad