Night Ranger - When You Close Your Eyes
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- Song Title: "When You Close Your Eyes"
Album: Midnight Madness
Year: 1984
Label: MCA/Camel (now under UMG)
This official music video is copyright 2000 Geffen Records and is posted courtesy of UMG. I do not claim ownership to this video or song. All rights reserved by copyright holders.
Jack Blades - bass guitar, lead & backing vocals
Kelly Keagy - drums, percussion, backing & lead vocals
Brad Gillis - lead & rhythm guitars, backing vocals
Jeff Watson - lead & rhythm guitars, backing vocals, keyboards
Alan Fitzgerald - keyboards, piano, backing vocals
The lyrics:
What do you do
When it's falling apart
And you know it was going
From the very start
Do you close your eyes
And dream about me
A girl in love
With a gleam in her eye
I was a yonger boy
All dressed in white
We're older now
Do you still think about me
I remember we learned about love
In the back of a Chevrolet
Well it felt so good to be young
Feels like yesterday
When you close your eyes
Do you dream about me
When you close your eyes
Do you dream about me
I guess I don't know what I'm thinking
Coming off a hard night of drinking
Angle come closer to me
I need a soul to bleed on
It could'a been done
In a different kinda way
But that ain't you
You play tough when you play
It's over now
I bet you still think about me
I remember I held you so tight
And we danced the night away
With the moves of two wide eyed kids
I need you so much today
When you close your eyes
Do you dream about me
When you close your eyes
Do you dream about me
(repeat)
I remember we learned about love
In the back of a Chevrolet
No good for an old memory
To mean so much today
(repeat chorus)
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If time travel is ever invented, I would highly recommend to EVERYONE, take a trip to the 80's...You'll never wanna leave...
Book me a ticket!! Life was all about the party.
The 80s was the best. I miss so much about them. I’d go back in a heartbeat
cratedog64 So true only people that lived it will feel the same
@cratedog64...couldn't agree more. If only we could. What a great time.
You got that right, Thomas!
I miss the 80s as a teenager. I hope they have a 80s section in heaven.
Amen.
that's the best comment. We can never go back but we have hope don't we?
@What The95 ..BEST COMMENT EVER!!!! ❤
I just hope Heaven has all my eatin up cassette tapes, or at least a pencil I could wind them back up with
@@lynch6642 ha! I forgot about the pencil rewind technique.
We were so lucky to be teenagers in the 80's ...such a great time and the best music ever. I still love all of these tunes. What a beautiful time in our lives. I wish the world could return to this time and way of life. Happy reminiscing everyone ❤
Listening to this brings back memories makes me sad
yes you were, being teenager in the 20s is terrible
Real talk…in 1980 I was 18 years old. Nearly 60 and appreciation for this time grows by the day, even the four years I was on active duty in the Army. Including Germany from 1987-1989. Magical time…!
You can sure say that again. It would be so great to return. What a wonderful time to be a teen and then early 20's. If you weren't there, you can't understand. Man, where's a time machine?????
I'm 64 and was 25 when this song came out. Went to see them @ Freedom hall in johnson city tn. Also seen them about 6 years ago outside in kingsport Tn they still rocked the house. What an underrated band. What an awesome time to be young.. We grew up with the BEST Music The best FAST FOOD...The best places to crusie. It's magical dude.
I'd give up 20 years of my life to live the 80's all over again. Sitting out in the summer on a cool night listening to the best music ever made on the radio. Not a care in the world.
We all would bro
I'm 41 music from the 70 and the 80 was great the best anything from around that time was awesome. To me my kind of music died when smells like teen spirit came out
me to best times definetly
Anyone that was there would.. peAce
Way better musicians in the 80s. Yeah 3 of these guys look like Will Ferrell and are totally over cheesing making this lame video but who cares great song! The 1990s hit and all of a sudden most music sucked. You had a few good Ozzy albums and GNR's double Illusion set but really not much after about 92 to look forward to talent wise and composition is still for the most part lame. If you like real music you will like my releases I am dropping this year. Most of the tracks are about 3/4s done and very listenable just not finished. They are not the same but you can tell I grew up listening to great music like this song and it reflects into my work. No lame cut paste copy add more VSTs and edit until it sounds good. Nope... just more real stuff like this just without beating the hook quite so to death!
Who's here in 2020 during this rotten pandemic, wishing they were kids back in the 80's again? A magical time, never to be repeated. :(
2022 here and you won't believe this crap...
Happy New Year-it’s 2024 and this song still rocks ✌🏼
The 80s had the AIDS and crack epidemics
The eighties were hands down the best time in American history to be a teenager.......
+Mike Ridley yes Sir.
Oh yeah!!!
+Mike Ridley The 1950's were much nicer.
+Meade Music I bet the 50's were great. And everyone who was young in the 60's said it was great. I know all the music. I was born in 1967. My parents listened to oldies and I love the 70's and 80's too.
I would say the 90s were about as good since girls became a bit easier and there was less homophobia, but one advantage of the 1980s was that you were much more free in what you could say.
The 1950s would have sucked a bit with all the puritanical stuff.
Night Ranger highly underated band
All of us can't be wrong!!! The 80's was the Ultimate Decade!!! We had just enough technological advancements to not be boring, but not like today with everyone (myself included) spending too much damn time on the cell and not enough personal interaction. We need the 80's back
The Decade of Decadence!!!!👍
I am 60 years old and I remember this song and the best days of my life with a special girl who I cared very much for. Night Ranger was her favorite group and this song can take me back in time and bring tears to my eyes.
Amen
Anyone still feeling the memories of the 80’s with this
I've never forgotten them.
Oh yeah!
Every single day and I’m 50 lol
This song still has the spark. All these years later.
Duh. Yeah, it does. Doesn't make it more popular though, just gets you 33 likes.
I'm 52 today, take me back to the '80s. I don't want to be in this era.
Happy 69th Birthday Kelly Keagy September 15, 1952. Eugene OR. Drummer on this song. Wow, I remember this song like it was yesterday. Many more Kelly Dean.. Happy B-Day M Mc
I feel the same way. Those times will never return 😢
Me too!!!!
I HATE this whole century.... go back to 1969
Sounds suicidal
Graduated in 1984. The 80's rocked. So,so many great memories. One of the greatest decades for rock.
I graduated in 83 - the best
84 too
Little late... But '87
Me too!!!! 84!! Best years of my life!!!!
I graduated in 1986 and was very lucky to see these guys in concert
Man this song makes me feel so alive again.... learning about love in the back of a Chevrolet... being an 80'''s teenager kicked ass
I literally listened with my eyes closed. I was reaching back for something I can not obtain. Damn those were great times. 🤘❤
Being a teenager in 80s was so cool. I was 16 when this hit the charts. I'd love to go back. Man I had a blast as a teenager in the 80s; the clothes, the hair, the makeup and of course the music 💚💛💜💙🧡❤!!
Yes it did! Being 50 sucks!
It was the back of a 76 Plymouth Arrow in ‘84 for me but still, those are priceless memories!!!
Everybody saying how much they miss the 80s but unable to put it into words. You nailed it though--we felt so alive because of the music. The music of that era enhanced emotion like nothing else.
Felt so good to be young....feels like yesterday.
Man that verse hits me right in my soul.
Totally agree. I was a preteen when this came out, now I’ll be 50 before I know it. Life goes fast.
That part literally pierces my heart every time I hear it!
@@ErikaMSmith no doubt 😢
Who knew it would go by so fast ?
Yes it does!!!!!
When I close my eyes, I dream about being a kid in the 80s.
I had the same thought. I was born in '82 but I was fortunate enough to be around a lot of music. I may have been young but I knew so much about various genres of music thanks to my family. My uncle was even on Headbanger's Ball twice as the drummer for Nitro! I loved the 80's. Great music, movies, cartoons, toys...Lol so much greatness.
Just keep listening to the classics!
It was awesome!Great music,roller skating, bush bashes and drive in movie theaters!
Never stop dreaming!
You and me both sister : )
"No good for an old memory to mean so much today." How true!
Born in '63, the 80s were the BEST, hands down. Big haired chicks, loud gear drives in a small block, gas was $1.50 a gallon, damn i wanna go back
1963, When legends were Born!
64 👍
Where did you live in the 80s where gas was $1.50? In Cleveland it was around 99¢
@@johnk.2508 Sacramento, Ca
63 here 80s were good but loved the 70s best
Who else that lived the 80’s miss them sooooooo much!!
Meeeeeee
My best friend in high school somehow talked the local radio station DJ into getting us backstage to meet Night Ranger when they came to my little Wisconsin town. They were perfect gentlemen, giving us little 16-year-old Catholic girls innocent tiny smooches before sending us on our way.
Yeah, I bet. Innocent? Ok.
La Crosse, WI ! I was there! Incredible show!
Night Ranger is one of the greatest and most underrated bands there ever will be PERIOD.
To be honest I never really gave them a second thought...that is until I saw them live at Junefest in Vegas. They are by far the best live band I have ever seen ( and I have seen hundreds of bands live from the 60's on). WAYYY better live than recorded. Been hooked since.
I thought the drummer, Kelly Quigley was cool,had a good voice Jack Blades was good also
I’ve always said that!! Just a great band that was grossly underrated!😊
Amen
LOL, they are not really that good at all...PERIOD.
Even in 2020 the 80s is the best era EVER. So glad I was part of it!
When this song was out, fellas during your years in high school, Who wore holes in their pants with a bandana wrapped around their knee,ripped up t shirt or sleeveless shirts with any rock band on the front part of the shirt,and wore their hair long and curly with it poofed up?The 80's was a huge blast of fun.
The Best Night Ranger song ever!
Close..sister christian😄
Sing me away
Another drummer who can sing lead.
So did Genesis.
So did restless heart
And The Romantics
And he was hot too 😍
This is their best song, not Sister Christian. Still hits me every time.
Agreed! 👍
I saw them live. And you're right.
Sing me away is pretty bad ass to.
@@werearethedreamteam3724 I love Sing Me Away too. They’re both my favorite songs by them.
@@StLProgressive it's sad that "sing me away" doesn't have radio play whatsoever.
One of the most underrated albums of the 80's. Midnight Madness was an epic album.
I'm not going to do the vinyl LP re-hash gig, but I'm gonna get a cd player and start buying cd's.
@@rynes.rai7er993 Why not both?😁 There's something about the sound on a turntable. Ahhhhhh!
Still think this hit is their clear #1.
This is my go to Night Ranger song, Sister Christian is cool but this is my song.
Was on tour with them in 1999 on Rock Never Stops Tour ! I was driving Warrant but got to watch & video all the bands on the tour ! these guys were so cool to hang out with !!
Nothing is like the 80s!!! Very lucky to have grown up in the 80s
One of the Best Guitar duo EVERRRRRRRRRRRR Gillis & Watson !!!!
Absolutely!!
Great memories. My girlfriend and I used to sing this song whenever it came on the radio. We sounded terrible, but we were young and didn't care.
You still with her
Heard this on the radio the other day for the first time in DECADES! Thanks for having it on TH-cam!
The 80s bands are awesome.
Night Ranger told music fans in 1984 "When You Close Eyes", dreams come true. These dreams still come true in 2024.
1983
YEAH,,,,,,, CLASS OF ROCKIN 84 HERE, GREAT MTV MEMORIES. NOT THE CRAP THEY HAVE NOWADAY'S.
Class of 85.
Class of 90. I agree
@@joek9353 CHEERS TO YOU LITTLE BRO. 90'S HAD SOME GOOD TUNES, BUT NOT AS MUCH AS THE AWESOME 80'S. ROCK ON JK!!!.
@Greg G ROCK ON FELLOW 84ER!!!. GREAT TIME TO BE A TEEN DURING THIS ERA WAS'NT IT?. ROCK ON GG!!!.
@@richardlahan7068 85 WAS MY FAVE YEAR DURING THE 80'S. ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO HEAR FROM FELLOW XER'S. KEEP THAT FLAME BURNING FOR THE SUPER 70'S AND AWESOME 80'S. ROCK ON RL!!!.
An old crush/friend from the 80's stopped by my office today to say hello as he was passing through town and this song immediately came to mind from our youth...:)
Best decade for music. Even my 22 year old daughter says that.
Kelly Keagy had one of the most incredible voices of the 80s.
When music was worth listening to not like today's crap
They just dont make good music like this anymore
you call this good ?
Night Ranger has put out 3 studio albums in the last 10 years on the Frontiers record label. Their last one came out in 2017. Kelly Keagy has released 2 solo albums on the Frontiers record label. Also, Kelly Keagy sings one song on the upcoming World Stage album coming out this month.
@Richard Arcidiacono- no, they don't and never will.
Learned about love in front seats of an 81 mustang. Love of my life. Married 31 years
Mine was a 69 refurbished mustang my bf had at the time. Fun times
It was great time to be a teenager. We got to hear all these great tunes when they were brand new.
And the videos!!!
Playing the drums and singing at the same time, WOW!.
I always get goosebumps on the part of feeling good to be young.. wow!
Hello pretty
Me too
I bet everyone listening to this has someone from the past they would dedicate this excellent song to. Or be the one it's dedicated to. Damn I miss the eighties. Of course every decade is nice in it's own right but since I've been living none of them tops the eighties.
Wish I could go back to the 80s. Bring my two Daughters they'd love it. So many great times memories.
The beauty of the 80's was growing up when everything was changing and for the better. Love of Country, God and people. We had the best music and heavy metal took the stage and lit up their guitars. All of this while still listening to the great music from the 70's and still enjoying the greatest country music artist Johnny Cash.
It's so sad that kids today have no clue of the great music we had.
I'm 19 sittin here chillin listening to this imagining I'm in the 80s lol
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 80's how I miss THEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In 1986 my older brother worked security for Night Ranger at a concert and told the band his brother was a huge fan. They all autographed a paper for him to give me - I still have it. Classy guys and fantastic musicians. He also gave me his “Night Ranger - Security “ issued shirt which made me the coolest guy in my high school. Thanks again bro.
Not a big night ranger fan, but this just one of those songs that take you back in time and make you feel good.
I saw them open for Sammy Hagar in the early 80’s. It was amazing, them and Sammy
My favorite song from them oh God today November 23th 2019 and still listen this amazing song that brings me tears and feelings in my mind 80s forever❤😍
What do you do
When it's falling apart
And you know it was going
From the very start
Do you close your eyes
And dream about me
A girl in love
With a gleam in her eye
I was a younger boy
All dressed in white
We're older now
Do you still think about me
I remember we learned about love
In the back of a Chevrolet
Well it felt so good to be young
Feels like yesterday
When you close your eyes
Do you dream about me
When you close your eyes
Do you dream about me
I guess I don't know what I'm thinking
Coming off a hard night of drinking
Angle come closer to me
I need a soul to bleed on
It could a been done
In a different kinda way
But that ain't you
You play tough when you play
It's over now
I bet you still think about me
I remember I held you so tight
And we danced the night away
With the moves of two wide eyed kids
I need you so much today
When you close your eyes
Do you dream about me
When you close your eyes
Do you dream about me
When you close your eyes
Do you dream about me
When you close your eyes
Do you dream about me
I remember we learned about love
In the back of a Chevrolet
No good for an old memory
To mean so much today
When you close your eyes
Do you dream about me
When you close your eyes
Do you dream about me
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Alan Fitzgerald / Jack Blades / Kelly Keagy
When You Close Your Eyes lyrics © Concord Music Publishing LLC
Fun fact,
NIGHT RANGER guitarist Brad Gillis, who took on the pressure-packed job back in 1982 of replacing Randy Rhoads after OZZY OSBOURNE's virtuoso guitarist died in a plane crash. He was later
replaced by Jake E. Lee who was later replaced by Zack Wylde.
My all time favorite! I sure wish I could go back to the 80's!
If I can rewind reincarnate the eighties, I could because that's a great time in the eighties when real music like Night Ranger came to play. Before MTV started bringing music videos, Educational Saturday Morning Cartoons were for the great kids and American Bandstand was for the up and coming teenagers that knew what real music was compared to what were hearing now. I miss the eighties because the eighties was real, It's real life.
Reset your clocks folks..
Heres your songs from The Best Of times. 80's rock. Night Ranger
comin at ya.
Sit back and Remember this..
Oh,man. How lucky we were to have grown up in the 80's! I'd go back in a heartbeat 💓
Brad Gillis was the man. He stepped into the Ozzy tour when Randy died, which had to be the most thankless job in rock at the time.
yeah, that must have sucked. I read about the hate he got for basically helping OZZY.
And He did a verry good Job!
I can relate to this song a lot ,had a chevy and did a lot with my first wife in it. We were both young.
I hope she still thinks about me.as i do her.
They never forget bro
Hard to believe they could cram so much 80s goodness into one single video!
Arlo Pear just saw them last night as an opening act for REO Speedwagon. Their part of the concert was way too short. I like REO but went for Night Ranger. Love the concert was was somewhat disappointed with how long they spent on stage.
I loved this song because I wanted the girl I had a crush on in high school back in 1984 to close here eyes and dream about me.
The most underrated band of the 80's. They are great!
If only I could go back to the 80s best time for music 🎶
Nothing is more badass than the lead singer playing the drums while singing.the 80s music ruled and always will and I’m glad I lived it.it was a great time to be a teenager.
Actually he is not the Lead Singer, he is one of the Singers, Jack Blades is the LEAD Singer.
Man, watching this video makes me think 2020 even sucks more then it already does.. Miss the 80's!!! big time!
Well it felt so good to be young, it feels like yesterday! For all of us who were teenagers in the 80s this song hits home as we are aging and getting older yet our teenage years feel like yesterday!
I couldn't agree more! I am on the coaching staff for my old high school soccer teams, so I am still very much around the building, and it keeps my memories alive as if it was yesterday! Class of 1986 Fenton High School...
Underrated 80's banger. That bridge riff is a crusher.
I grew up in the 80'S. "Seems Like Yesterday, We Need This So Much Today".🎸🎹🎤🎵I NEED A SOUL TO BLEED ON!! 🙏✝️
Graduated high school in 1986. Still a great tune.
82 for me
87
85.... New Boston Texas
Same
Fellow 86!
This song reminds me of being a 10 year old kid going to the local drive in theater. The back of the family station wagon facing the screen watching BTTF on opening weekend enjoying drive in theater hot dogs and popcorn. What amazing memories those were!!
What a song!! Takes me back to first love and great times !!!!Damn we lived and loved in the best times - the 80s
They don't make music like this anymore. These were good times.
To Debbie,my first real love. The 80s were the best
Best era of music ever
This song randomly popped in my head today. Don't know why. Not mad about it, though.
That Chorus melody is just so good. I can listen to it over on a loop and never tire.
This could be the rest of my life tune. 🤘
Starblaster77 agreed...the notes he hits are amazing!!
I'm doing that right now! peAce
The 80’s were the best decade depending on what part of the world you lived in, but definitely the best time in my life and would like to go back in time and enjoy those years all over again.
Heard this for the first time on a American Top 40 re-run this morning. This goes hard! Although, it's Night Ranger, so that's not really a surprise. lol
Just reading these comments takes me back
Over a dozen nickle back fans don't like this song.
I'll join in on the conversation. The 80s were the best.
Boy I miss the eighties
me too brother me too sad
Christ will be here forever. And he doesn't like it when you take his name in vain. Just an fyi.
Every once in awhile I play this and go back to the spring of 1985. Me and my Tim are on the couch watching this video, swearing we'd never love anyone else.
And I never did and according to him, we'd still be together had it not been for Michelle Underwood breaking us up.
I miss him so much.
There's something sad about a one time lost love.
Have you ever tried to go back????????
Sad. Things happen for a reason. He may not be the person today that he was in 1985.
One of my favorites ❤️❤️❤️.High school nothing like the 80s I want my MTV ❤️❤️❤️😘😘😘😘
the most underrated band of the 1980's prove me wrong
Would never try..I’m so agreeing & feeling goosebumps listening to this today..
Music like that will never come again
one of the greatest songs ever written, also nice to see the 97.9 The Loop T-shirt
Who's here in quarantine❓🔥🔥💯✅
This song was one of my favorite songs by them and when I meet my future wife she made me a tape with this song not knowing it was one of my favorite songs by them ...meet her in 85 and married her in 86 and we still together as we shared many bumpy roads but always stayed together and in love 34 years and still the songs touches us I love you always Francine candy stamps
Seen Night Ranger open for KISS. They were great live. UNFORGETABLE night!!!
Now this is music. Not like that crap they try to pass off as music today.
I wanna go back.👍😎
That 80's mullet, bad hair decade. Will always love this song been listening since the 80's
Great 1980s song!!! The 70s & 80s had the Best Music in my opinion. Night Ranger was a Great Band!!! They had a lot of Great Tunes!!!
They just don’t make such good rock ballads like this nowadays ❤️
Kelley can damn sho sing
The 12 year old in me is sitting down watching this music video at the top of the hour on mtv.
This track is what kept me from taking my own life. I was homeless and all I had was a walkman and a blank cassette with one song. I was able to ask the benevolent members of the local church for double a batteries and I was able to power through the depths of life.
Good for you Boomslang!!!👍🕊
No one played with more energy than these guys!! Epic live shows!!
Just saw this on the MTV Classic for the first time in over 30 years. So miss the days when MTV was actually great. They should change their name to CTV, Crap Television.
For Real.
I’m an 80’s kid ❤️ it