Nummer

In Your Eyes

Nummer van Peter Gabriel
Origineel op album So (1986)

Lead vocals: Man

Taal: Engels

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In Your Eyes is een nummer van de Britse artiest Peter Gabriel. Het verscheen op zijn album So uit 1986. Op 2 september van dat jaar werd het uitgebracht als de derde single van het album.

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"In Your Eyes" is a song by the English rock musician Peter Gabriel from his fifth solo studio album So (1986). It features Youssou N'Dour singing a part at the end of the song translated into his native Wolof. Gabriel's lyrics were inspired by an African tradition of ambiguity in song between romantic love and love of God.

"In Your Eyes" was not released as a single in the UK but was the second single from So in the US, achieving strong radio airplay and regular MTV rotation. It reached number 1 on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks on 13 September 1986 and peaked at number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November. Gabriel released two extended versions of the song as a 12" vinyl single in the US. The first ran 6:15 and was the single version. The second, "Special" mix, ran 7:14 and was the B-side. In Australia, "In Your Eyes" peaked at number 97 in November 1986.

The song was featured in the 1989 film Say Anything... starring John Cusack and Ione Skye. It closed Gabriel's setlists during 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 and solos by the other singers and players. It was included on the US version of his 2003 compilation Hit, but not the European or Japanese versions.

In 2005, the song gave Gabriel his first gold single, certified in the US by the RIAA.