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Give Me Your EyesThe Cardigans

Producer: Tore Johansson

[Verse 1]
Oh girl, look at yourself
What have you done?
What have you become?
Well, I couldn't say

Slow down and think of your heart
Where do you go?
Now, how am I supposed to know
I'm always looking away

[Chorus]
Give me your eyes
So I can see me straight
Give me your eyes
I can't tell night from day

Give me your eyes
So I can see me straight
Give me your eyes
And watch me walk away
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah

[Verse 2]
I took a look at myself
Nothing inside
Except for cigarettes and wine
Where there should be a life

You've been watching me for a while
And you like what you see
It's in the eyes of the beholder
Now give them to me

[Chorus]
Give me your eyes
So I can see me straight
Give me your eyes
They seem to light my face
Yeah, yeah, yeah

[Bridge]
Oh mirror, mirror upon the wall
Who is the fairest of them all?
Mirror, mirror made no reply
Mirror went black and cracked from side to side
Yeah, yeah, yeah

[Verse 3]
Oh girl, look at yourself
What have you done?
What have you become?
You know the camera don't lie

[Chorus]
Give me your eyes
So I can see me straight
Give me your eyes
I can't tell night from day

Come give me your eyes
So I can see me straight
Give me your eyes
And watch me walk away
Yeah

[Outro]
Give me your eyes
Give me your eyes
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah

The Cardigans

One of the most pleasing pop groups of the ‘90s, the Cardigans specialized in sugary confections that would grow annoying very quickly if they weren’t backed by solid musicianship and clever arrangements. The band’s 1995 breakout album, Life, reflected the Cardigans at their most saccharine – the sunny disposition of vocalist Nina Persson being the major argument in favor – and critics inserted the group into the space age pop revivalist camp. the Cardigans later proved that they were more difficult to pigeonhole, however.

Even the band’s origins showed that their later appearance was quite misleading; two heavy metal fanatics formed the group in October 1992 in Jonkoping, Sweden. Guitarist Peter Svensson met bassist Magnus Sveningsson in a hardcore group, though he had previously trained in music theory and jazz arranging. The two later grew tired of metal and decided to form a pop band with vocalist Nina Persson – an art-school friend who had never sung professionally – plus keyboard player Lars-Olof Johansson and drummer Bengt Lagerberg.

All five Cardigans moved into a small apartment in 1993 and began recording a demo tape that entered the hands of producer Tore Johansson later that year. He liked what he heard and invited the group to record at his Malmö studio. Signed to the dance-oriented Stockholm label, the Cardigans released Emmerdale in May 1994. The single “Rise & Shine” became a hit on Swedish radio soon after the release of the LP, and a readers poll in Sweden’s Slitz magazine voted Emmerdale the best album of 1994.

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