The song Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue belongs to Crystal Gayle. I can't honestly say I was a fan when it was popular years ago, but good science fiction (and Trek usually is) makes you look at old things in new ways. It seems an appropriate way for my favorite character to mourn the loss of his lady.
Brown Eyes Blue
He sat alone nursing a blue drink in a dark corner of a dive bar on Risa. Andorian ale or Romulan ale? Who cares? Drunk was all that mattered. She'd died a year ago today.
An old Earth tune came on the karaoke. He heard only bits and pieces of the song.
Don't know when I've been so blue . . .I'll be fine when you're gone
I'll just cry all night long . . .
Didn't know just what I had
But, honey, now I do . . .
He put his head down on the table and wept silently.
Don't it make my brown eyes blue.
