Loom - Ani DiFranco

you always got those dark sunglasses

covering half 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’ve spoken

we’ve put in our token

and ridden the tilt-a-whirl

i was giggling and dizzy

flirting like a twelve year old girl

the carnival of you and me is coming to town

watch how we spin and spin

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 want a monument of the friendship

that we never had, erected

i want to take up lots of room

i want it to loom

you always got those dark sunglasses

between us when we talk

but after the party is over

if you wanna take a walk

we could just look around

not do nothing wrong

just try to be at least as brave as our songs

i will bring my heart

i will bring my face

you name the time and place