Writer: Peter Gabriel
Producer: Peter Gabriel, Bill Laswell, Daniel Lanois
Album: So (Peter Gabriel)
Label: Geffen Records
Year: 1986
I watched "Say Anything" for the first time the other day. The classic heart broken boyfriend holding a boombox above his head blaring Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" inspired me to post about the song. Gabriel wrote "In Your Eyes" after an attempted reconciliation with his one-time girlfriend, actress Rosanna Arquette, which ended in failure. In 1986 "In Your Eyes" hit number one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and number twenty-six on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2005, the song reached over 500,000 copies sold and Gabriel recieved his first Gold single, certified in the U.S. by the RIAA.
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In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel lyrics
Love, I get so lost sometimes.
Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.
When I want to run away I drive off in my car,
But whichever way I go I come back to the place you are.
All my instincts - they return.
The grand facade so soon will burn.
Without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside.
In your eyes
The light the heat.
In your eyes
I am complete.
In your eyes
I see the doorway
In your eyes
To a thousand churches
In your eyes
the resolution
In your eyes
of all my fruitless searches.
In your eyes
Oh, I see the light and the heat.
In your eyes
oh, I want to be that complete.
I want to touch the light,
The heat I see in your eyes.
Love, I don't like to see so much pain.
So much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away.
I get so tired working so hard for our survival.
I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive.
And all my instincts - they return.
And the grand facade so soon will burn.
Without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside.
In your eyes
The light the heat.
In your eyes
I am complete.
In your eyes
I see the doorway
To a thousand churches
In your eyes
the resolution
In your eyes
of all my fruitless searches.
Oh, I see the light and the heat.
In your eyes
oh, I want to be that complete.
I want to touch the light,
The heat I see in your eyes.
In your eyes..
In your eyes..
In your eyes..
