This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
These eyes cry every night for you
These arms long to hold you again
The hurting's on me, yeah
And I will never be free, no, my baby, no no
You gave a promise to me, yeah
And you broke it, and you broke it, oh no
These eyes watched you bring my world to an end
This heart could not accept and pretend
The hurting's on me, yeah
And I will never be free, no, no, no
You took the vow with me, yeah
And you spoke it and you spoke it, babe
These eyes are crying
These eyes have seen a lot of loves
But they're never gonna see another one like I had with you
These eyes are crying
These eyes have seen a lot of loves
But they're never gonna see another one like I had with you
These eyes are crying
These eyes have seen a lot of loves
But they're never gonna see another one like I had with you
These eyes cry every night for you
These arms these arms long to hold you, hold you again, ah
These eyes are crying
These eyes have seen a lot of loves
But they're never gonna see another one like I had with you
These eyes are crying
These eyes have seen a lot of loves
But they're never gonna see another one like I had with you
These eyes are crying
These eyes have seen a lot of loves
But they're never gonna see another one like I had with you
These eyes are crying
These eyes have seen a lot of loves
But they're never gonna see another one like I had with you
Baby, baby, baby, baby
Don'tcha know the eyes are crying every night?
These arms long to hold you again
The hurting's on me, yeah
And I will never be free, no, my baby, no no
You gave a promise to me, yeah
And you broke it, and you broke it, oh no
These eyes watched you bring my world to an end
This heart could not accept and pretend
The hurting's on me, yeah
And I will never be free, no, no, no
You took the vow with me, yeah
And you spoke it and you spoke it, babe
These eyes are crying
These eyes have seen a lot of loves
But they're never gonna see another one like I had with you
These eyes are crying
These eyes have seen a lot of loves
But they're never gonna see another one like I had with you
These eyes are crying
These eyes have seen a lot of loves
But they're never gonna see another one like I had with you
These eyes cry every night for you
These arms these arms long to hold you, hold you again, ah
These eyes are crying
These eyes have seen a lot of loves
But they're never gonna see another one like I had with you
These eyes are crying
These eyes have seen a lot of loves
But they're never gonna see another one like I had with you
These eyes are crying
These eyes have seen a lot of loves
But they're never gonna see another one like I had with you
These eyes are crying
These eyes have seen a lot of loves
But they're never gonna see another one like I had with you
Baby, baby, baby, baby
Don'tcha know the eyes are crying every night?
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The Guess Who is easily one of the most underrated/overlooked bands of the Classic Rock era, in every Classic Rock album there should be 2 or 3 of their songs, These Eyes is a very stong 'love' song. My guess is that he just broke up and couldn't stop crying for that girl, and he wrote his feelings and made himself one of the greatest Classic Rock songs of all-time! Aweomse song! The Chorus is just too good!
great song <3
I'm in the same position as salparadise04. I saw the movie Stay and was like, what is that song they're listening to in the car? I really like it, so I looked it up and found this great song. :)
How can you hate Canada? Ah well, not everyone likes Canada. But yeah, this song is obviously (if you've heard the song or read the lyrics) about someone loosing the love of their life, and desperately wanting them back.
There's alot, much alot (like cranking the amp from 10 to 11 alot) to this song than meets these eyes. It's well known the writers went back and forth between naming the song, "these arms" and "these eyes." Why the abrupt change? These arms indicate a teenage premature ejaculation groping, while these eyes delve into the notion of the eyes being the "window of the soul," a transcendent envelopment of space and identity more associated with timeless idealistic love than brutal animal orgasm. From another window, these arms, cry every night for you, and these eyes, long to hold you again, creates yet another dimension, the endless tension between the physical and the symbolic, the creature longing and timelessness of imagination's perpetual eternity. The writer cries that he hurts, that he shall never be free from the hurting, and the source of the hurting is the death the infinite wish, the wish to capture the non-anxious state of childhood omniscience and Egolessness. The world here, of course, is not literal. It is the world of Eden's loss of innocence, world collapse, the war between the objective mind and the timelessness of feelings. Further, that the writer mentions a "vow" can only be interpreted as the groom still waiting at the alter, as Dylan writes, and the sinking understanding the committed other was not honest or authentic, even though it was spoken. The writer implores us to believe he has experienced the loves of Shakespearean templates and archetypes, and therefore he knows the difference between the true love forsaken and the ideal love he must now say goodbye to.
pennylane is on the dot and in the know.
you guys should post on more of the awesomeness of the guess who. and this song rocks out...canadia style
The Guess Who is awesome.
I figured they'd either gotten married and she left him, or gotten engaged and she left him. Either way, one of my favorites.
great song, second best canadian band though (RUSH pwns)
saw the film, Stay, which had short clips of the beginning of this song. Reminds me of how much greater a movie can make a song (in your mind). this one comes straight from the heart. fab.