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