Right Between the Eyes

Album: 4 Way Street (1971)
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  • My head is hanging heavy with the thoughts of him in mind
    'Tis sacrilege for us to take advantage of the blind
    So, tell before you come to me from out of yonder skies
    A man's a man who looks a man right between the eyes
    And the pain that we can bring to him

    I don't think he could beat
    Please don't ask me how I know
    I've just been up that street
    And all the people living there
    Have been silenced by their own lies

    A man's a man who looks a man right between the eyes
    And talking' from experience I know how he would feel
    Waking up and finding that his one love wasn't real
    But the age of truth will soon appear, Aquarius arrives
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Comments: 6

  • Kc Ramsey from PennsylvaniaNash has said this song was his message to a fellow musician whose wife Graham had slept with. It's a well-known musician. Might be John Sebastian. It's in the bio books somewhere. But the person who brought Jesus into the discussion is a complete idiot. Absolutely complete.
  • Toad from ClawsonLeave it to a superstitious knucklehead to distort someone else's art as a way to pump up his own insane delusions. Isn't there a Q meeting somewhere in Stockton for you to attend?
  • The Real Mark Palmer from FloridaI’m sorry. Sometimes I’m a complete delusional ignoramous. I should keep my imagination to myself.
  • Tyler from Planetactually, you are wrong Mark Palmer. the song is about an affair Graham had with a separated women.
  • Mark Palmer from Stockton CaliforniaThe song is very catchy but a total lie. It is a mockery of Christ Jesus and of His followers. Dear Graham, please, one way or another you will meet Jesus face to face and won't need any faith. Odds are that you will not witness His breaking "forth out from yonder sky". Repent and believe amigo because the "pain that you've experienced" will not compare to the wailing and gnashing of teeth that will begin and continue for eternity, concerning you and all unbelievers, after His coming. Come out from amongst them Graham.
  • Ken from Philadelphia, PaThis is actually a beautiful song... that I was always shocked didn't become a hit.
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