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The Deborah Harry song catalog you find on this page was compiled by me, the webmaster, with the help of my personal record collection, booklets, biographies, setlists, ASCAP, the LoC (Library of Congress), articles and (live) bootlegs. It's my goal to create a page which features Deborah's complete musical body of work, no matter if Deborah was in any way musically involved herself or whether she contributed her own lyrics to a project. In order to keep up the standard of this page and to make it grow you can help by submitting song titles and/or information which are missing on this site. Every contribution is greatly appreciated. Official song lyrics were taken from booklets. I transcribed those songs myself where no official lyrics were available (with no guarantee for their accuracy). I apologize for possible errors and will gladly take corrections. I kindly ask you not to copy any of these lyrics from this page.
All song pages include links to the albums, singles and/or live albums which they were released on. Best Ofs and soundtracks were only listed if there is a special mix available on the record or the song title itself was previously unreleased.

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INFO

written by: Deborah Harry - Chin-Chin Music (ASCAP) & Chris Stein - ESXP Music (ASCAP)
produced by: Chris Stein
engineered by: Hugo Dwyer

all instruments by: Chris Stein

FEATURED ON

Necessary Evil [album] (2007)

REMIXES & OTHER VERSIONS

[no official remixes available]

NAKED EYE

(--- speculated lyrics ---)

When I crossed my fingers, you crossed your heart where there's a tattoo of Jesus and Cupid who's shooting his dart
All covered in colorful stories and stars
You bet I go crazy, an odyssey blazing with daggers and fire
Oh-oh, oh whoa

Your ink can't rub off on me and yet you mark me easily
But not for the naked eye to see
No, no, your ink can't rub off on me and yet you mark me easily
But not for the naked eye to see

I can't stop staring at my illustrated man
There's a mass of confusion 'til you put your clothes on
And when time's arrow shoots up your arm then forward is backward and 'love' is bad word but 'sex' is alright

Oh-oh, oh whoa

Your ink can't rub off on me and yet you mark me easily
But not for the naked eye to see
No, no, your ink can't rub off on me and yet you mark me easily
But not for the naked eye to see

Not for the naked eye to see
Not for the naked eye to see
Not for the naked eye to see
Not for the naked eye to see

COMMENTS

quoted from the VH1.com article 'Deborah Harry: Track by Track':

"This is another one of Chris's songs. He gave it to me, and I had another idea for it entirely. I thought it was a really good lyric idea and I tried really hard to make it work, and it wasn't really working. I worked on it for a couple of weeks, focusing on it and really sitting there trying to make it work. I was just about to throw the whole thing away but I turned on the TV and there was a show about tattooing and I though "Ah OK, so I'll make this about the illustrated man," and about the ink of another person. It won't rub off but yet he is leaving his mark on you. So that's what that was about."