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
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 of all the fruitless searches
In your eyes
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 of 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 of all the fruitless searches
In your eyes
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



Lyrics submitted by Novartza

Track duration: 08:30

"In Your Eyes" as written by Erik Sundborg, Michael Feiner

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

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    Song Meaning:This song is about love slipping away, the end or ending of a relationship.
    For some reason they can't be together. Incompatibility, fear of committment or life situation.
    He sings that he feels empty without her but his thoughts and his whole being always return to her because she is the only thing that makes him feel complete.
    He can see his future in her eyes but it is becoming too hard to make the relationship survive.
    Flag TLCon March 07, 2013   Link
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    My Interpretation:I love how it can be interpreted on MANY levels.

    God, slipping into a deep meaningful and strong relationship that just works so well. That's why I love Peter so much, numerous angles!
    Flag Aquilaon January 24, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:I always thought he was singing about looking through God's eyes. It shows how God sees the world, and how the man reacts to feeling this.
    Flag skessingeron August 20, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Does anyone know the lyrics at the end that are sung in an African language? I've been wondering what they are ever since I first heard the song, and so far I have found nowhere online that includes them in the lyrics.

    By the way, I think this song can be interpreted as a love song, or it can be about God. It seems to be about both so there's probably no right answer. Personally I think it's a love song to a woman, but the lyrics and feel of the song are spiritual.
    Flag EnduringChillon May 22, 2012   Link
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    Song Meaning:I feel that this is obviously a spiritual song.
    It has to do with meditation.
    ( I reach out from the inside)
    Often during meditation eyes are seen looking back at you.
    When I want to run away I drive off in my car(metaphore)
    But which ever way I go I come back to the place you are (inside)
    The resoulution of all the fruitless searches. (God is always on the inside waiting patiently)
    Think Im wrong? Crazy? Try it


    Flag Dropthechalupaon October 25, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:To me, this is about loving someone so deeply that it becomes spiritual. When you're that connected, that person can always pull you back from the brink of insanity ("All my instincts, they return") and the craziness of the fronts we have to put on ("And the grand facade so soon will burn"). To love someone that way is metaphysical--I think that's what the lyrics about the doors of a thousand churches refers to. The light, the heat, the completeness you have with them is something beyond this world, something only music can explain.
    Flag law4on August 25, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:This is really a simple song to figure out, first just replace the word “love” with GOD. And the song is very easy to figure out.

    The driving reference is a metaphor for every time we leave god to pursue our selfish desires. But we all come back to what we know to be true “instincts” and the “grand façade so soon will burn” is when we leave our bodies behind, pride and everything we spend our life trying to acquire or earn. All that matters is what’s inside, the part of us we don’t show anyone, where we no longer need the gratitude and cheers of others.

    Only the eyes of god can light the way and heat our hearts.

    “In your eyes, I see the doorway of a thousand churches” what’s the first thing you see when you walk through the doors of most churches? A cross with Jesus on it, (yes I know he looks down, but from his vantage point he sees all the doors) he then watches all the people who come to him to find resolution but so very few do “fruitless searches”.

    The last verse is simple, through all the hard things that life throws at us it’s God who gets us through it.

    I would question whether he wrote this for a girl, But, for marketing reasons I can see why he would say that and leave God out of the lyrics.
    Flagged Nayrb01on August 20, 2010   Link
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    My Interpretation:Simply put: this song is about true love.
    Flag SultanOfSixon April 21, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I love this song so much. <3
    Flag JohnHughesFanon December 07, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Not perfect love, Perfect Devotion. The singer has fallen hopelessly in love with the one he sings about.

    Generally this crashes and burns, the one devoted to can't stand it, feels undeserving...

    OR

    They feel deserving, almost always proving their not.

    BUT

    I would like to think somewhere the perfect devotion met the deserving soul...

    The Devotion was deserved, the Love returned in acceptance of the love.

    I envy that love.

    Beren and Luthien

    Arwen and Aaragorn

    Romeo and Juliet
    Flag ThoughtfulApeon December 04, 2009   Link

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