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Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes (live)

In Your Eyes is a song by British musician Peter Gabriel from his 1986 album So with Youssou N'Dour singing some choruses translated into his native Wolof. The song was the main-theme of the 1989 teen-film Say Anything... starring John Cusack.

The single was only released in North America and achieved strong radio airplay and MTV rotation. It reached #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and #26 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1986.
It was not released as a single in the UK. However, Gabriel did release two extended versions of the song as a 12" vinyl single in the US. The first (the Single Mix) ran 6:15. The second (the Special Mix) ran 7:14.

The song was the finale of the Secret World Tour and is the final track on the 1994 Secret World Live album, where it is over 11 minutes long and includes the extra lyrics from the Special Mix, in addition to solos by the other singers and players. It was included on the US version of his 2003 compilation Hit, but not on the European or Japanese versions.

In 2005, the song brought Gabriel his first Gold single, certified in the U.S. by the RIAA.

Licensed uses

In 1988 (at the end of the 1987 NFL season), NBC Sports used "In Your Eyes" in for the prologue (narrated by Dick Enberg) of the AFC Championship Game between the Denver Broncos and Cleveland Browns.

The theatrical trailer for the 1993 film Benny & Joon features In Your Eyes.

In the 2005 Cold Case episode entitled "Family", the song appears towards the end as a 1988 murder case is resolved.

The song is featured in the 2008 film The Rocker when A.D.D. plays their first gig at a high school prom.

Sampled portions of the song can be heard in the 2010 Girl Talk album All Day.

The song was also featured at the end of the series premiere to Felicity in 1998 on the The WB.

The 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 façade

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 the 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

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 façade

So soon will burn

Without a noise

Without my pride

I reach out from the inside

In your eyes, in your eyes

In your eyes, in your eyes

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 the 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, in your eyes

In your eyes, in your eyes

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Peter Gabriel -- lead vocals, keyboards.

Richard Evans -- guitars, mandolin, whistles, backing vocals.

Melanie Gabriel -- lead and backing vocals.

Tony Levin -- bass, electric upright bass, backing vocals.

Ged Lynch -- drums, percussions.

David Rhodes -- guitars, backing vocals.

Rachel Z -- keyboards, backing vocals.

Special Guests

Sevara Nazarkhan -- vocals.

Toir Kuziyev -- Sax?