Lyrics:

Right Between The Eyes
(Gold/Gouldman)

True love for me was nothing but a mystery
Just something only captured in a dream
Oh then suddenly, it was hitting me
Right between the eyes

I wasn't looking for a love explosion
But I must have been a target, my oh my
'Cause when I least expected it
Took a direct hit
Right between the eyes

You, you shattered my resistance
Yes it's true, you battered my defense
What could I do?
I'm running from the heat between me and you

You hit me with a million volts
Nailed me with a lightning bolt
Oh baby, it knocked me cold
Your love zapped me
Right between the eyes

Nothing's going to cool down my desire
'Cause I'm jumping from the fat into the fire
The love bug has bitten me
You're hittin' me
Right between the eyes

And now, each time I think about you
I don't know how, I ever did without you
Spin me round, and I'll never get my feet back on the ground

You hit me with a million volts
Nailed me with a lightning bolt
Oh baby, it knocked me cold
Your love zapped me
Right between the eyes

Oh, the power of your love is much too strong
You turn me on

You hit me with a million volts
Nailed me with a lightning bolt
Oh baby, it knocked me cold
Your love zapped me
Right between the eyes

You hit me with a million volts
Nailed me with a lightning bolt
Oh baby, it knocked me cold
Your love zapped me
Right between the eyes

Biography by Tom Demalon
Wax UK was the union of veteran musicians Andrew Gold and Graham Gouldman, which produced several albums in the 1980s. Gold, the son of Academy Award-winning composer Ernest Gold and Marni Nixon (who had handled the singing for, among others, Natalie Wood in West Side Story), had been a member of Linda Ronstadt's band and found success as a solo artist and songwriter in the '70s. Gouldman had been a solo artist as well as a member of Hotlegs and 10CC.

In 1986, Wax UK released their debut, Magnetic Heaven, which spent nearly three months on the U.S. album charts, spawning the hit 'Right Between the Eyes,' which just failed to reach the Top 40, peaking at number 43. Two more albums by the duo followed, 1987's American English, which contained the successful European single 'Bridge to Your Heart,' and 1989's A Hundred Thousand in Fresh Notes. The latter two records failed to achieve sales of the debut and, by the beginning of the '90s, both Gold and Gouldman had moved on to other efforts; the former, in the singer/songwriter collaboration Bryndle; the latter, participating in a reunion with his 10CC mates.