Pale Blue Eyes

Album: The Velvet Underground (1969)
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  • 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

    Linger on your pale blue eyes
    Linger on your pale blue eyes

    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

    Linger on your pale blue eyes
    Linger on your pale blue eyes

    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

    Linger on your pale blue eyes
    Linger on your pale blue eyes

    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

    Linger on your pale blue eyes
    Linger on your pale blue eyes

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

    Linger on your pale blue eyes
    Linger on your pale blue eyes Writer/s: Lou Reed
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 2

  • Arlette from Corona, CaAccording to Wikipedia, " 'Pale Blue Eyes' - along with a number of Reed's other songs - was inspired by his college sweetheart and muse, Shelly Albin, who indeed had pale blue eyes."

    I think this song is one of the simplest and most intimate songs of the Velvet Underground possibly because of Cale's absence.
  • Tess from Ny, NyThe Kills made a version of this song for the Levi's Pioneer Sessions: 2010 Revival Recordings, which includes new versions of songs from influential bands and singers that inspired the sound of today's pioneering musicians of different genres.
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