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You Wear Those Eyes Lyrics
You wear those eyes that never blink
You always were the missing link
You paint your mouth, you let me know
You really are the only show
Just take your time
'Cause it's not too late
I'll be your mirror
So you won't hesitate
I'm easy to be found
Whenever you come down
You got that walk, you do the stroll
You make me lose my ground control
You got that look I can't resist
Like something missing, never kissed
You do the pogo without the bounce
You got the name I can't pronounce
You fall in love like the sting
You make believe it's everything
You always were the missing link
You paint your mouth, you let me know
You really are the only show
'Cause it's not too late
I'll be your mirror
So you won't hesitate
I'm easy to be found
Whenever you come down
You make me lose my ground control
You got that look I can't resist
Like something missing, never kissed
You do the pogo without the bounce
You got the name I can't pronounce
You fall in love like the sting
You make believe it's everything
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I think this song is Ric Ocasek's ode to Paulina Poriskova, or one of them. It seems he's posing these things to her while she's up on the catwalk during the height of her modeling career. The song is mostly transparent with little to interpret, but the line that clued me in is:
"You got the name I can't pronounce"
Not that Poriskova is hard to pronounce, but hey, I'm stretching here. What the hell else would it be about?
Other elements that make me think it's about Paulina:
1) "You wear those eyes that never blink." She has beautiful eyes that, for a model on a runway, are supposed to look austere and unblinking.
2) "You really are the only show." Aye, he's really into her, and no one else. This was composed, surely, when he was courting her. Or just met her.
3) "Just take your time..." Yes, see, he's courting her... and he's a rockstar.
4) "I'm easy to be found / whenever you come down..." As in come down off the metaphorical catwalk. And: 'I'm famous enough to be easily found.'
I would love to ask Ric Ocasek if this song was written about his wife. Stephen Colbert and I are thankful for his art.
@ChrisBayer Really thoughtful, but one critical detail: This song was recorded in 1980 and Ocasek met Porizkova in 1984. Whoever the song is actually about, all of those details have to match otherwise.
@ChrisBayer Really thoughtful, but one critical detail: This song was recorded in 1980 and Ocasek met Porizkova in 1984. Whoever the song is actually about, all of those details have to match otherwise.
I'll always remember hearing this song for the first time, not knowing the artist, and thinking that I'd "discovered" a great new band, then finding out that it was The Cars, whom I had loved for years without knowing this album.
"I'll be your mirror" is the title of a 1967 Velvet Underground song; the use of that in these lyrics may be a conscious homage to the earlier band.
This is one of several Cars songs where the lyrics describe an intense infatuation, but the performance conveys calm verging on detachment. It creates a kind of coolness that is a big part of the band's legacy.