[kupoartist]

The import CD single on amazon ( https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=music ), which is of course the original Japanese market release, appears to be of the English version of Eyes on Me. Similarly, i'm pretty certain that the version of Eyes on Me on the Final Fantasy VIII 4 OST, is the English one - as there is no especially made for English Speaking territories versions of the soundtracks - The FF9 soundtrack contains the Japanese Version of the song that was Melodies of Life in America and Europe - I can only assume that the English version is the "official one".

As for the existance of other, Japanese versions of Eyes on Me, its fairly common practice for them to make arranged versions of existing FF songs. The FF Pray album (one of my favourites) vocalised a whole load of FF themes and I think Rikki did a vocal version of Aerith's Theme for the Suteki Da Ne Single. The difference in lyrics may simply be someone translating as they hear it (usually inaccurate), the result of differences is the way they translated it (two different translators can come up with different translations - one was offical, the other wasn't) Or the simple existance of two different arranged versions.

BTW, I assume that the "CD3" in the product title is a typo and not indicative of there being more than one CD single, because there is only one CD on the actual Japanese Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/...570593-8673968

Hope this helps. The real way to find out, I assume, is to own a copy of both the Japanese Single Release and the Japanese Album Release. Otherwise, i'm just speculating ^_^