Description
Some people never stop loving the person you were, even when you’ve spent years becoming someone different.
Through Your Eyes is about the pain of living under the weight of your past—where every word, every silence, and every mistake is judged through old wounds that never seem to heal. It’s the feeling of loving someone who says they’re reacting to who you are, when in reality they’re reacting to who they’ve decided you’ll always be.
This song isn’t about denying the past. It’s about asking for the chance to be seen for the person standing in front of them today, rather than the memory they’ve chosen to hold onto.
Lyrics
Verse 1
I know I dropped the glass before,
Left pieces scattered on the floor.
I’m not pretending I was right,
I carried all that through the night.
But every word I say today
Gets measured by what slipped away.
Even silence gets put on trial,
Like guilt can live inside a smile.
Pre-Chorus
You hear tomorrow through yesterday,
Before I even get to speak.
You call it protecting your heart,
But it’s slowly burying me.
Chorus
You don’t love the man that’s standing here,
You love the ghost you never leave.
Every little thing becomes a crime,
‘Cause that’s the version that you see.
You say it’s because of who I am,
But that’s not who I’ve grown to be.
It’s not my name that hurts us now,
It’s the way you look at me.
Verse 2
Someone else could make that call,
Forget to text, stay out too long.
You’d probably laugh and let it pass,
But with me it’s another scar.
Every answer starts the same,
Another chapter, same old blame.
You find the ending before the start,
Like hope was never in your heart.
Pre-Chorus
I keep paying debts I’ve already paid,
With interest I can’t outrun.
No matter how much I become,
You’ll still love the man I’ve undone.
Chorus
You don’t love the man that’s standing here,
You love the ghost you never leave.
Every little thing becomes a crime,
‘Cause that’s the version that you see.
You say it’s because of who I am,
But that’s not who I’ve grown to be.
It’s not my name that hurts us now,
It’s the way you look at me.
Bridge
If you already know my answer,
Why ask the question anyway?
If every road leads back to guilty,
What’s the point of trying to change?
You built a room inside your mind
Where I’m forever yesterday.
You locked me in and lost the key,
Then blamed me when I couldn’t leave.
Final Chorus
You don’t love the man that’s holding you,
You hold the shadow of my past.
I’m trying to give you everything,
You’re trying to make old moments last.
You say it’s because of who I am,
But it’s because of what you believe.
You keep falling for a memory,
While I’m begging you to see me.
It’s not the past that’s breaking us,
It isn’t what I used to be.
The hardest part of loving you…
Is you’ll never really see me.
Outro
You keep saying,
“It’s just who you are…”
But maybe…
it’s just who you think I am.