Bette Davis Eyes est une chanson écrite par Donna Weiss (en) et Jackie DeShannon et rendue populaire par l'interprétation de Kim Carnes en 1981 dans un style radicalement différent. Donna Weiss lui avait présenté plusieurs chansons, dont la démo originale de Bette Davis Eyes et Kim Carnes fut séduite, même si la chanson nécessitait quelques arrangements pour lui donner des sonorités qui correspondraient davantage à ce qui se faisait au début des années 1980. Pour cela, son claviériste, Bill Cuomo, compose au synthétiseur les riffs caractéristiques de cette nouvelle version.

Her hair is Harlow gold
Her lips sweet surprise
Her hands are never cold
She's got Bette Davis eyes

She'll turn her music on you
You won't have to think twice
She's pure as New York snow
She's got Bette Davis eyes

[Chorus 1]
And she'll tease you
She'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
She got Greta Garbo stand off sighs
She's got Bette Davis eyes

She'll let you take her home
It whets her appetite
She'll lay you on her throne
She's got Bette Davis eyes

She'll take a tumble on you
Roll you like you were dice
Until you come out blue
She's got Bette Davis eyes

[Chorus 2]
She'll expose you
When she snows you
Off your feet with the crumbs she throws you
She's ferocious and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy
She's got Bette Davis eyes

And she'll tease you
She'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy
She's got Bette Davis eyes

She'll tease you
She'll unease you
Just to please ya
She's got Bette Davis eyes

She'll expose you
When she snows you
She knows ya
She's got Bette Davis eyes