Green Eyes

The album on which it appears featured a greater presence of guitar and piano compared to the previous album, Parachutes. The September 11, 2001, attacks, which occurred a week before recording sessions began, influenced the band members’ mood during the songwriting process. A Rush of Blood to the Head sold over 13 million copies and in 2003 was ranked number 473 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Musically, the song begins with an acoustic guitar accompanied by Chris Martin’s vocals, a combination that continues throughout the first half of the track. After that point, the rest of the instruments join in, and toward the end, the song returns to that same initial format: solo acoustic guitar alongside the vocals. When performed live, the song is usually played at a slower tempo than the recorded version. In a special edition of the single "Clocks" distributed in Germany, "Green Eyes" was included and followed by "Mooie Ellebogen," a new piece lasting just a few seconds that was only performed live on that occasion. Meanwhile, in Australia, a very limited-edition promotional single was released containing only this song. On Last.fm, the track has over 1,151,994 listeners and more than 8,297,299 plays.