[2] According to Mick Fleetwood, "Eyes of the World" was one of two songs that Buckingham brought to the Mirage recording sessions at Le Château along with "Can't Go Back".
[3] Christine McVie said that "Eyes of the World" underwent significant changes in the recording studio; she said that the final product was "hardly recognizable" from when it was first introduced to the band.
Buckingham later sped up the recording and reworked the song by splicing together different musical passages, including one that he called "the Swingle Singers section".
[7] Buckingham overdubbed multiple guitars on "Eyes of the World", including a Gibson Les Paul and a Fender Stratocaster, many of which were recorded in December 1981 and January 1982.
[2] He used a variable speed oscillator (VSO) to make some of the guitars resemble a twelve string, which he achieved by recording his parts at half-speed.
It starts off with the 'swingles,' then it goes into a sort of Bach-esque guitar thing and they're all fairly succinct sections within themselves, all butted up against each other"Eyes of the World" features what High Fidelity magazine described as a "fragmentary lyric style", with some of the vocals being entirely wordless, particularly during the intro.
[12] In his review of Mirage, Ken Emerson of The Boston Phoenix highlighted the song's "nursery rhymes and Swingle Sisters harmonies".
[13] Writing for The Washington Post, Geoffrey Himes believed that "Eyes of the World" was a song that exemplified his "odd brand of folkie-surf music.