[5] Inspired by a trip to a cathedral in Barcelona, Spain, Gabriel wrote lyrics for another So era song, "Sagrada".

[6] Gabriel derived the lyrics from two sources: the Sagrada Família in Barcelona and the construction of the Winchester Mystery House, but he never finished the composition despite performing it live on a few occasions.

Instead, N'Dour translated certain lines of the song into his native Wolof language and improvised his parts on the spot, prompting Gabriel to join in.

[8] Despite not being credited with the instrument in the album's liner notes,[12] Daniel Lanois stated in a 2023 interview with Rick Beato that he played an acoustic twelve-string guitar on the song's chorus.

But in this case, the support was such that it was high frequency, harmonic, high-speed component underneath a relatively low slow phrasing from the vocal.

[14] Manu Katché was brought into the recording studio to play drums on "In Your Eyes", which was one of the first songs he worked on with Gabriel along with "Don't Give Up".

[8] Katché recalled that he struggled to find a proper approach to the song, so Gabriel loosened him up by performing an African dance.

[16]Cash Box called it a "sweet and tuneful ballad" and praised Gabriel's "plaintive voice and sensational spacious production work.

"[18] Rolling Stone thought that "In Your Eyes" was "perhaps the closest thing to a conventional love ballad Gabriel has ever recorded.

A famous scene from the film occurs when broken-hearted Lloyd Dobler serenades his ex-girlfriend, Diane Court, outside her bedroom window by holding a boombox up above his head and playing the song for her.

He later approved the use of "In Your Eyes" upon seeing Say Anything....[24] In a September 2012 interview with Rolling Stone, discussing the 25th anniversary of So, Gabriel commented on the cultural impact of the scene, "It definitely gave [the song] a second life, because now it's so often parodied in comedy shows and it is one of the modern day Romeo and Juliet balcony clichés.

Cameron Crowe was also present at the concert and later tweeted "Peter Gabriel and John Cusack on stage together at the Hollywood Bowl tonight.

The event, which took place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, was filmed and was later televised in late May 2014 on the HBO cable channel.