Killer's Eyes - The Kinks

I see so little hope in you

So much despair

As I look in your eyes I wonder

What thoughts linger there

Life means nothing to you

At least that’s what they say

But it doesn’t mean that you have the right to take life away

How were we to know what was going on inside your mind

You never let it show what was going on behind

Those killer’s eyes

Killer’s eyes

You’ve seen your picture in the paper

Your little sister’s pinned it on the wall

She thinks you’re in some kind of movie

Imagine her surprise when she saw you on the news

Reporters came around and asked for interviews

So little compassion, so icy cool

They say you were a poor boy, you know that life can be cruel

Hate builds up from childhood, your world was a slum

But you haven’t got the right to blow it to kingdom come

How could we know what it was like inside a killer’s mind

It never really showed, you kept the secret deep inside

Those killer’s eyes

Killer’s eyes

You say the world is full of bullshit

So you kill just as you see fit

They say that you’re a fanatic with a mission

We all go through hell in some kind of way

Can you tell me what it’s like to be there every day?

When you were young you had a vision

Why’d you go and do a thing like that?

And now we see you on the television

Imagine our surprise when we saw you on the news

And reporters came around and asked for interviews

I see so little hope in you

So much despair

As I look in your eyes I wonder

What thoughts linger there

Life means nothing to you

At least that’s what they say

But it doesn’t mean that you have the right to take life away

When you were just a child

You’d hide away when other children cried

But how were we to know

These tears that flowed were from a killer’s eyes

I see so little hope in you

So much despair

As I look in your eyes I wonder

What thoughts linger there

Life means nothing to you

At least that’s what they say

But it doesn’t mean that you have the right to take life away

Those killer’s eyes

See the whites of their eyes

Those killer’s eyes

See the whites of their eyes