5.06 am (Every Stranger's Eyes)
[Waitress:] "You wanna cup of coffee?"
[Customers:] "Heh, Turn that fucking juke box dow
You want to turn down that juke box....loud in here"
[Waitress:] "I'm sorry, would you like a cup of coffee
Ok, you take cream and sugar? Sure."
In truck stops and hamburger joint
In Cadillac limousine
In the company of has-been
And bent-back
And sleeping forms on pavement step
In libraries and railway station
In books and bank
In the pages of histor
In suicidal cavalry attack
I recognise..
Myself in every stranger's eye
And in wheelchairs by monument
Under tube trains and commuter accident
In council care and county court
At Easter fairs and sea-side resort
In drawing rooms and city morgue
In award winning photograph
Of life rafts on the China sea
In transit camps, under arc lamp
On unloading ramp
In faces blurred by rubber stamp
I recognise..
Myself in every stranger's eye
And now, from where I stan
Upon this hil
I plundered from the poo
I look aroun
I search the skie
I shade my eye
So nearly blin
And I see signs of half remembered day
I hear bells that chime in strange familiar way
I recognise..
The hope you kindle in your eye
It's oh so easy no
As we lie here in the dar
Nothing interferes, it's obviou
How to beat the tear
That threaten to snuff ou
The spark of our love
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