Pale Blue Eyes

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“Pale Blue Eyes” is a song written by Lou Reed for The Velvet Underground’s 1969 album, The Velvet Underground. The song was written for Reed’s first serious girlfriend… Read More

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Pale Blue Eyes Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Sometimes I feel so happy
Sometimes I feel so sad
Sometimes I feel so happy
But mostly, you just make me mad
Baby, you just make me mad

[Chorus]
Linger on your pale blue eyes
Linger on your pale blue eyes

[Verse 2]
Thought of you as my mountaintop
Thought of you as my peak
Thought of you as everything
I've had but couldn't keep
I've had but couldn't keep

[Chorus]
Linger on your pale blue eyes
Linger on your pale blue eyes

[Verse 3]
If I could make the world as pure
And strange as what I see
I'd put you in the mirror
I put in front of me
I put in front of me

[Chorus]
Linger on your pale blue eyes
Linger on your pale blue eyes

[Verse 4]
Skip a life completely
Stuff it in a cup
She said, "Money is like us in time
It lies but can't stand up
Down for you is up"

[Chorus]
Linger on your pale blue eyes
Linger on your pale blue eyes

[Verse 5]
It was good what we did yesterday
And I'll do it once again
The fact that you are married
Only proves you're my best friend
But it's truly, truly a sin

[Chorus]
Linger on your pale blue eyes
Linger on your pale blue eyes

About

“Pale Blue Eyes” is a song written by Lou Reed for The Velvet Underground’s 1969 album, The Velvet Underground.

The song was written for Reed’s first serious girlfriend and true love, Shelley Albin. Although Shelley wasn’t married and did not have blue eyes (details he changed to make the song work), he tried many times to get her back, and therefore what he “had but couldn’t keep” (“Lou Reed” by Anthony DeCurtis, page 49).