Weekly Finale: Devil Doll

Another week leads into weekend, so here is your musical finale to send you on your way.

This week, I offer for your consideration a very sexy tune, but it never really consummates with its subject.

The song is Bourbon in Your Eyes by a rockabilly band called Devil Doll:


Aside from lead singer Colleen Duffy's smooth as velvet voice which puts her in Peggy Lee's class of world class chanteuses, the song is a lyrical masterpiece:

Call me angel and take my hand,
Wishing you could be my man
But I can tell if it's truth or lies
When you've got bourbon in your eyes
Tell me something that I don't know
Then I Dare You to prove it so
I'd ask you to try this on for size,
But you've got bourbon in your eyes, 

You're so Mmmmm 

I find myself showing up at your front door
Although I can't come in I keep coming back for more,
And when you call me baby it feels just like a line,
And everytime you smile when you look into my eyes,
You don't have the guts to love me like you wish you could
I'm gonna find someone to make me feel the way I should. 

Run your fingers through my hair,
I want you to touch me there,
But I will not open up my thighs
When you've got bourbon in your eyes,
You're the one that makes me smile,
And I know you'd make it worth my while,
But she's waitin for you and I think she cries,
When you've got bourbon in your eyes. 

You're so Mmm, 

I find myself showing up at your front door
Although I can't come in I keep coming back for more,
And when you call me baby it feels just like a line,
And everytime you smile when you look into my eyes,
You don't have the guts to love me like you wish you could
I'm gonna find someone to make me feel the way I should. 

You're so sweet talkin
You're so fire walkin,
I know I shouldn't but I want some.
Little boy you're lost
I see you lookin around
But I think that you know more than you let on... 

I must leave you 'cause I know your kind
You'd wake me up just to say goodbye
And I know that's not a tear in your eye
'Cause boys don't cry and neither do I,
I may be in love but I'll never say
So I guess I'll be on my way
At least I gave it a try but you had bourbon in your eyes.

From "bourbon in your eyes" as a classier way of saying "beer goggles" (although with more than a hint that the drinking is a problem for the man in the song), to the whole repeated aspect of the lead singer finding this married/attached man attractive yet far too dangerous. It works as poetry as well as music.

Sadly, Devil Doll has been on hiatus since 2015 due to Colleen Duffy's battle with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. I sincerely wish her the best, because Devil Doll has a lot of good music left in them.

Have a good weekend folks, and try not to get too much bourbon in your eyes. Better to drink it!