{"id":112,"date":"2006-01-04T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=112"},"modified":"2015-11-01T23:11:54","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T07:11:54","slug":"your-eyes-have-it-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/01\/04\/your-eyes-have-it-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Eyes Have It Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Your<\/p>\n

F<\/span>rankly I’m hoping y’all are pretty much hung over, preoccupied, or otherwise semi-oblivious and I can sneak this attempted song past without too much fuss.<\/p>\n

The lyrics to this song have as much intellectual depth as the protagonist — a petty con man trying to take advantage of a gullible woman — has moral depth.<\/p>\n

What, you might ask yourself, does a self-respecting songwriter do when he finds that the nasty little bit of nonsense he hoped he could turn into something of redeeming lyrical value ends up being a nasty song-length bit of nonsense?<\/p>\n

Well, I can’t answer for self-respecting<\/span> songwriters, but I<\/span> usually find myself hoping for a Killer Riff… which, all too often — as here — never comes.<\/p>\n\n

Your Eyes Have It Tonight<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I never felt like this ever before
\nwell maybe just once or twice
\nI guess that it’s Love I can alaways tell
\nthe answer is always in the eyes<\/p>\n

Your eyes have it tonight<\/span>
\nthey glow like the stars above<\/span>
\nyour eyes have it tonight<\/span>
\nTonight I guess we’re in Love<\/span><\/p>\n

I been around the world five or six times
\nI never saw nothing like you
\nAll those places all those faces
\nIt took all this time to get to you<\/p>\n

Your eyes have it tonight…<\/span><\/p>\n

I just got back from the Orient
\nI was doin a job for some friends
\nmy letter of credit’s hung up — I aint got no dough
\nbut at least in you, I got a freind<\/p>\n

Your eyes have it tonight…<\/span><\/p>\n

Let me stay with you for a couple of days
\nI swear I won’t get in the way
\nI got some business — collect on a couple of debts
\nand then I’ll be on my way<\/p>\n

Your eyes have it tonight<\/span>
\nthey glow like the stars above<\/span>
\nyour eyes have it tonight<\/span>
\nTonight I guess we’re in Love<\/span><\/p>\n

9 August 1987
\n(C)1987, TK MAJOR<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frankly I’m hoping y’all are pretty much hung over, preoccupied, or otherwise semi-oblivious and I can sneak this attempted song past without too much fuss. The lyrics to this song have as much intellectual depth as the protagonist — a petty con man trying to take advantage of a gullible woman — has moral depth. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,340],"tags":[973,974,975,972],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}