[From the album: Tragically Ever After]

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Buried Alive!

Beyond Our Eyes

[First performance:]
August 19th, 1999

Despite being laid out as a metaphorical story, it is about all people who revel in the power of status and/or authority and revel in outcasting other people outside of their group or social circle.

[Notes:]

• The title of this song is taken from the infamous line of the Queen of Hearts from Lewis Carrol's "Alice in Wonderland" series
• The lyrical subject matter was actually inspired by the state of the band in the late 90's under the direction of Dan Gober.
  
  To Zadoc it felt like a bizarre kingdom in which undesirables were "outcast" and disassociated from which all required Zadoc's approval on their "death warrants". Zadoc considers these years to be the most unpleasant in the band's history.
• The music is inspired by Bruce Dickinson's "The Chemical Wedding".
• A common misunderstanding with the songs lyrics is that it is often thought that the choruses are identical, when in fact the pronouns change each time, before reverting back to 'Off with "Her" Head' in the outro. The succession of pronouns is as follows: "their" heads, "her" head, "his" head, and finally "her" head again.
• The lyric "the axe and the maces clash" is an homage to Iron Maiden's "Invaders" and the line "Axes grind and maces clash"
• The album cover of "Beyond Our Eyes" was dubbed depicting the "fields of tomorrow" mentioned in this song, thereby making a fictional parallel between this song and the song "Beyond Our Eyes" taking place in the same "world".
  
  This connection thereby furthers the Lewis Carol influence with a life size chess board running through the "fields".