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"Bright Eyes" is a song written by British songwriter Mike Batt and performed by Art Garfunkel. It was written for the soundtrack of the British animated adventure drama film Watership Down.

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Rearranged as a pop song from its original form in the film, the track appears on British and European versions of Garfunkel's Fate for Breakfast and on the US versions of his album Scissors Cut. "Bright Eyes" topped the UK Singles Chart for six weeks and became Britain's biggest-selling single of , selling over a million copies.

Richard Adams, author of the original novel, is reported to have hated the song.^[2] A cover of the song, performed by Stephen Gately, was later used explicitly in the Watership Down television series as its theme song.^[3]

Background

The song was written, produced and arranged by Mike Batt for Watership Down, with original director John Hubley requesting a song about death.^[4] I