Eyes Closed Too Tight (female)

Story Behind The Song

At the end of the movie "That Thing You Do," the female lead says to her boyfriend as she was breaking up with him: "I have realized that I have been kissing you with my eyes closed too tight." I wrote down the hook.

Song Description

She fell in love with him for a bunch of right reasons, but as time went on, she knew something was wrong. She also knew that she had been overlooking the problems but that she should not have been. In the end, she breaks up and tells him "I've been kissing you with my eyes closed too tight."

Song Length 3:44 Genre Country - Traditional, Country - General
Tempo Medium Slow (91 - 110) Lead Vocal Female Vocal
Mood Disturbed, Annoyed Subject Failure, Relationship
Similar Artists Patty Loveless, Lorrie Morgan Language English
Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

VERSE
It might have been your smile or the way you looked at me
It could've been your eyes; to my heart you held the key
But your kiss told the story of everything you were
The one who put my heart and my mind in a blur

CHORUS
(But then) (Oh) You changed, you rearranged
Goodness and light to dark of night
Or had I just realized...
I'd been kissing you with my eyes closed too tight
Telling myself everything was alright
The difference in truth and moonlight
Is I was kissing you with my eyes closed too tight

VERSE
I've come to understand I was wrong about your kiss
Good we hadn't gone too far; too bad about what I'll miss
But the time has come for me to make my getaway
'Cause deep in the woods sometimes you hear the banjo play

Repeat CHORUS

BRIDGE
Now it's time to say goodbye
There's a better world waitin' for me

Repeat CHORUS

TAG
Yes, I was kissing you with my eyes closed too tight

Words & Music by Don Tomlinson
© 2019 Solid Sterling Music (BMI)
All Rights Reserved.

Lyrics Don Tomlinson Music Don Tomlinson
Producer Don Tomlinson Publisher Solid Sterling Music
Performance Kelly Nolf

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