Single $1
Evocative acoustic balladeer
Song Info
Genre
Charts
Peak #942
Peak in subgenre #98
Author
Alan Kim Cochran/Alan Kim Cochran
Rights
2008
Uploaded
May 02, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 5.8 MB • 128 kbps • 6:22
Story behind the song
I once loved a beautiful, blue-eyed blonde girl who lived on an Indian reservation in Arizona. I almost won her heart, but she had been deeply in love with my indifferent brother, who is about fifteen years older than I am. She would, understandably, not allow herself to marry into the family – because my brother would always be there, a reminder of her disappointment. It was the last thing I’d expected – to be competing with my brother: When we met, I was twenty-one. She was nineteen. He was thirty-six… seventeen years her superior!
Ten years passed, with her turning away many suitors, still waiting on my brother – who never was interested to begin with, and never married at all. I remained single for another eleven years, proposing to her ten years after our first meeting. She teetered upon acceptance, but alas...
I feel that we were both cheated of our years by this sad triangle, but I don’t lay blame upon her.
Finally, her world crumbled. Her mentor died, and, love-starved, she turned her back upon all her friends, abandoned her values, and moved far away. The last I heard, she had married, and was living in the Midwest…
I hope he’s a good man.
- Alan Kim Cochran
Lyrics
Eyes So Blue
by Alan Kim Cochran
She came from Jackson Hollow, when her schooling all had ended
We became good friends, or at least we both pretended
She reminded me of me, or of what I'd been before
And, the time she flustered red, when I told her she meant more, to me
What place have you lived, that a man could make you tremble?
I'd found no one like you, and I never could dissemble
Flower in the desert, my bright and shining girl
Gem of deepest ocean, my soft, exquisite pearl
I'd never seen eyes so blue, in a face of flax and linen
Or a smile so inviting too, what answer could be given?
Confident and free, the world at your feet
You were bold and you were fine, so faithful and discrete
You reminded me of me, or of what I'd been before
And, the time you flustered red, when I told you you meant more to me
You loved another man, only he would never have you
You wasted all our time, wanting only him to cling to
You reminded me of me, or of what I'd been before
And, the time you flustered red, when I told you you meant more to me
I'd never seen eyes so blue, in a face of flax and linen
Or a smile so inviting too, what answer could be given?
I found another girl, only doing what I must
And you found, without love, life was only dust
You reminded me of me, or of what I'd been before
And, the time you flustered red, when I told you you meant more to me
She came from Jackson Hollow, when her schooling all had ended
We became good friends, or at least we both pretended
She reminded me of me, or of what I'd been before
And, the time she flustered red, when I told her she meant more to me
I'd never seen eyes so blue, in a face of flax and linen
Or a smile so inviting too, what answer could be given?
I'd never seen eyes so blue, in a face of flax and linen
Or a smile so inviting too, what answer could be given?
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