Right Before Your Eyes - America (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Right Before Your Eyes (America, 1982-1983). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2024-07-08. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"

"Right Before Your Eyes," written by Ian Thomas, was recorded by the British-American band America and released as a single in 1982; their version stalled at the no. 45 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (Whitburn, 2013) but rose to no. 16 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart (vancouversignaturesounds, 2024). Ian Thomas recorded his song first in 1976 and scored a hit with it in his home country of Canada the following year where it landed at no. 11 on the Vancouver charts (vancouversignaturesounds, 2024).

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Lyrics:

Every day I sit beside you
On the bus to Madison Avenue
You work in the big gray store
With the revolving doors

You don't even know my name
I guess that I'm to blame
Don't know the right things to say
So I pretend away

That I'm Rudolph Valentino
Pull up in my limousine
Oh, won't you come in out of the rain?
Things'll never be the same

And then just like Greta Garbo
You stare like there's no tomorrow
And you'll know what I'm thinking of
Right before your eyes, I fall in love with you

Today I'm done with games (today I'm done with games)
Gonna ask you for your name
Say I've been watching you
I even know what you do

Maybe today I'll tell you (maybe today I'll tell you)
I've found the nerve to sell you
On a guy like me
Who wishes that he could be

Your Rudolph Valentino
Pull up in my limousine
Oh, won't you come in out of the rain?
Things'll never be the same

And then just like Greta Garbo
You stare like there's no tomorrow
And you'll know what I'm thinking of
Right before your eyes, I fall in love with you

Right before your eyes, I fall in love with you
Right before my eyes, you'll say you love me to

Rudolph Valentino
I pull up in my limousine
Oh, won't you come in out of the rain?
Things'll never be the same

And then just like Greta Garbo
You stare like there's no tomorrow
And you'll know what I'm thinking of, ooh