you've always got those dark sunglasses

covering up your face

but if you promise to take them off

i promise i won't squander your gaze

i will be picturesque

i will be nice

i won't do anything you can't tell your wife

i will think before i act

i will think twice

just let me see your eyes



each time we spoke you put in a token ran? the tilt-a-whirl

when i was giggling and dizzy

flirting like a 12 year old girl

the carnival of you and me was coming to town

watch how we spin and stop and then fall down

now we just say hello and head for firmer ground



you are the one-way glass

that watches me

standing in line at the bank

i always looked into your glasses

like a cat looks into a fish tank

but all i could ever see

was the specter of me reflected

i'm on a monument of friendship

that we never had erected

i wanted to take up lots of room

i wanted to loom



you always got those dark sunglasses

between us when we talk

after the party is over

if you wanna take a walk

we could just look around

not to nothing wrong

just try to be at least as brave as our songs

i will bring my heart

i will bring my face

you just name the time and place