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Blue Eye'd Stranger

I'd like to see your eyes up closer, get to know all your shades of blue,
you know I knew another blue eye'd lover, and her memory's making it hard for me to see you,
oh, but I want to, baby where you been? how do your eyes see?
maybe you've met some men and they're memory's making it hard for you to see me,
maybe you would tame me and them leave me,
maybe I'm afraid to rest my faith in a stranger,
maybe everybody is,
maybe we mold some of these strangers out of our fears...
maybe if you came over here, sat down and looked into my eyes for a while,
I wouldn't have to force a smile, wouldn't have to say what I think I should
and you know we would be strangers if we could look into each other's eyes
long enough to see all the shades and hues of blues for me and browns for you...

I don't know if you'll remember me,
but you were so pretty and then you were beautiful,
when you smiled through your eyes
you were beautiful and I was just full, not brave enough to speak,
maybe because I over here sitting on a little bit of darkness that I don't want to share...
maybe everybody thinks they're sitting on the deepest darkest nastiest shit
and nobody else could ever deal with it,
maybe if we could share our shit there wouldn't be so many strangers...
I'm carrying my blue eye'd lover in my heart and in my shoulders, too,
I'm a gonna stretch before I talk to you,
oh man oh man woman, your eyes are so big,
they look like they've never been beaten back by beauty magazines or divorce,
I gotta get rid of these dark rings in case I get to hear you sing or smell your breath in the morning...
I hope it's nasty, because in the morning my breath is sooo nasty.