When I Close My Eyes — An adult rests with closed eyes on a sunlit Merced porch while an inner landscape of river, ocean, orchard, birds and flowering geometry opens around him

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When I Close My Eyes

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr. Listen to the recorded versions and follow the lyric below.

Original Doug Heyes lyrics · AI-generated music & vocals

Closing his eyes opens the narrator to a world of light, ancient questions and imagined places shared with someone he loves. Dreams of palaces and eternity eventually settle into a simpler possibility: a quiet life together. Love becomes the companion that lets him face both wonder and uncertainty without needing every answer.

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Recorded versions

3 recordings. Different voices and arrangements bring another side of the song into the light.

Lyrics

When I Close My Eyes

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr

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When I Close My Eyes
When I close my eyes
I don’t want for nothin’
I don’t need a thing
When I close my eyes
When I close my eyes
I know I have everything
Love could ever bring

We can listen for a lifetime
And never hear a thing
What can happen in a moment
Can change most anything
Take a look and realize
Just what this night can bring
Tell me when you close your eyes
Can you see everything?

First there is the darkness
Then we see the light
Dancing in the shadows
And off into the night
Things illuminated
We never thought we’d see
Things that we created
Just for you and me

Candle light and soft lamp glow
Shooting stars and cool rainbows
Things of Earth, things of sky
Things of lifetimes passing by
Shiny crystal palaces
Vanish in the mist
Answers come to questions
From when we did not exist

Ancient words of wisdom
Written on the walls
Yes, you know the language
Because you know them all
Palaces and temples
Great communion halls
Riding in a barrel
As it goes over the falls

Will we live forever
And never, never die?
Or will it all be over
In the blinking of an eye?
Is it like a jigsaw puzzle
Or a big game board?
Do you remember where you've been
And what you’re moving toward?

Maybe there's an answer
Somewhere way out there
I'll look for it with you
We can go anywhere
Maybe to the mountains
A simple kind of life
Another day along the way
A good man and his wife

Till then, baby, close your eyes
Till then, dream of me
Let love shine through the darkness
Let love set you free
When I close my eeye
I just see you and me
Can you take my hand my love
And close your eyes with me?
CHORUS
When I close my eyes
When I close my eye close my eyes
I know I have everything
Love could ever bring
OUTRO & OUT

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