EYE CONTACT
F Gm C F
It's hard to look at people, achingly so a'hard. I just stare.
Gm Adim D Gm Gdim Am D7
Nothing focused, just a stare. Staring into open air. Look at me.
Gm C Am D7
Look at you. Our looks are plentiful. Looking at me,
Gm Gdim Dm
Look at you. As though it's meaningful. It's
Bb Dm9 Bb
Easy to look at people on a flat-screen, unaware of me.
Their splashy moves within its confines wash all over me. My(C)
Eyes, that dart like water-bugs, command a totality of four borders.
F Gm C F
How about that statue in the park? Are we rude to stare? Stare away.
Gm Adim D Gm
Follow the eyes; move your own. Watch where I move mine.
C Am D Gm C F F7
A glance is everything. It speaks more than words can say.

Bb Dm
“In her eyes she said it all.” She feels the
Rays when eyes upon her set their gaze.
F Gm
It's hard to lock out people. It's so hard to look at people.
G C
Let me lead you, as you do I, walking forward, don't look back. I, the
Bb/C F
leader, walking forward, don't look back...
F Gm C
Eye contact connects us. I can try. I write and wait. Enclosed by
F Gm Adim D
books of worth, I climb to an empty shelf to hide.
Gm Gdim Am D
where the bookshelf meets the ceiling. What protagonist
Gm C A Dm
leaves a party to crawl into a corner book shelf?
With myself, by myself, in the privacy of an estate that was
Bb Dm F/G Bb/C BbInstr.
never mine, now lost. At last alone, until lonely. Why be lonely? Connect.