Peter Gabriel, In Your Eyes (1986) The perfect song smack in the middle of a pretty perfect album, Peter Gabriels So highlight In Your Eyes induces chills from its very first chords, and the first (and only) time the former Genesis frontman simply intones the word love. As his haunting, yearning voice at first sings of this emptiness that fills my heart, a slow increase in tempo and layered instrumentation builds to an exultant chorus about the kind of love in which I am complete, I see the doorways to a thousand churches, and find the resolution to all my fruitless searches. The language almost sounds a bit Shakespearean and indeed, the song was immortalized in the equivalent of a Romeo and Juliet balcony scene in Say Anything , as John Cusacks Lloyd Dobler hoists a boombox in the air to play it for his ex-girlfriend
Smooth, light and no twigs
Most, he said, respond politely.
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