Open Your Heart

"Open Your Heart" - Europe

I haven't listen to this song for a few months but when i turned on some Europe music today i remembered how beautiful it is...

There are two versions of this song, the first version was on Europe's album - "Wings of Tomorrow" released in 1984 and the second version is on the album - "Out of This World" released in 1984. The differences in the two version is a little change in the lyrics and in the second version there is a better guitar rift and solo, on the second version there was another guitarist also, you can here the differences like i said.

The song is about a relationship with a girl that goes up and down all the time - "Days filled with joy and days filled with sorrow" and he doesn't know if he is going to happy one day or lonely another. And he just want that everything could be like before when the relationship was always wonderful. He wants her to open up and tell him whats wrong, and he don't know if can cope anymore. The he wonders if the time can heal the relationship...

it sounds like a normal love song that anyone can write but I think that there is more to it and the lyric as a whole makes it more beautiful.

Here is the change in lyrics of the last verse

1984: "Oh girl, before I fall... Maybe the sun will continue to shine, maybe the rain will continue to fall, maybe you want to leave me behind, maybe you'll change and give me a call."

1988: "Before we lose it all... Maybe the time has its own way of healing, maybe it dries the tears in your eyes, but never change the way that I'm feeling, only you can answer my cries."

I think that the change they made to the lyrics in the last veers from the first version to the second tighten the lyric because he sing about them and not her.

If you ask me i think that the second version is the best because the little change of lyrics and guitar rifts makes a lot of difference to the song and it becomes more beautiful...

and one final thing about the second version is that after the solo he sings - "open your heart...yeah! let me here you make up your mind" that "Yeah!" he adds makes it so much better somehow, you get a little rush from it and it makes you scream:P it sounds stupid that a little thing like that can do so much but i think that i does so much more:D

sometimes it's the little things that counts...:)

First version - 1984



Second version - 1988