Eyes of Pain

 

This is the original demo version from February 1995

available on The Things We Will Never Know EP released in 1997

 

Baby your love gives me shivers

and I wanted you to know

that I can't live without you

            (I go crazy)

I just wish that you could see

the pain in my eyes, the pain in my eyes

the pain in my heart, that belongs to you

 

Baby my hope is dim

I know you're gonna go back to him

to think I wasted all this time

and I got a  long way to go

the pain in my eyes won't let you go

the pain in my eyes has to find a way

            to live without you , no

 

Baby I will never be free

your laughter is always stuck inside of me

I wish that I could get out somehow

I loved and I lost and I cried

            as our love died

the pain in my eyes, the pain in eyes

the pain in my heart, that you've torn apart

 

 

Live versions

(variations inserted during live sessions of this song)

 

Baby I'm in hell without you

and all the crap you put me through

I'm tired of seeing you fuck other guys

you made up all of those lies

            and I wonder why I believed them

the pain in my eyes lifted me far above

the alibis and the pain in your cheap love

 

Baby I am hoping that you might want me

'cause I've got no one left to love

its so hard to be in love with you

all the shit you put me through

can't you see the pain in my eyes, the pain in my eyes

the pain that makes me blind and I can't start to see

 

Baby my love grows

and I'm just hoping that you know

ain't no way  in hell I'm gonna let you go

by my side and in my mind,

            to remind me of ...

the pain in my eyes, the pain in my eyes

the pain in my heart, because of you

            because of you

                        because of you

 

Note:

            This song was a complete improvisation from a kick ass riff that I threw together the first time I used a capo. This is my favorite song and destined to be a classic. If I ever have a hit, it will be this song.

            Now this song has hundreds of verses, but like many other songs that I write, it is meant as a simple expression of the loss of love and the fear of being alone. Bad love is better than no love at all.

            It is funny, it has been ten years since I wrote this song and now failed one night stands are not even a thought in my mind, as I am married. Anyway, to find true love I had to sacrifice the comfort of childhood and the family I thought would always support me. Only love remains, and the joys of my wife and 2 kids.