Randy Bachman started writing this song when he was waiting in the living room at the house of his date, Lorayne Stevenson. She was taking a long time getting ready so Bachman sat at the piano and wrote the beginning of this song. Lorayne - the girl he was waiting for - he later married (they were married for about 10 years and had six children together). Bachman claims the song took him just 15 minutes to write once he sat down with his bandmate Burton Cummings to put it together. Cummings, a trained Royal Conservatory Of Music pianist, later complimented Randy for devising riffs that were technically wrong but sonically right for the emerging song. With an original title of "These Arms", Burton Cummings changed the title to "These Eyes" and added the middle eight.