A Quiet Understanding - Jamie Lenman

You two were friends before we met

It’s not my place to say it

And he seems like an honest guy

But he looks at you with hungry eyes, all of the time

The thought has never crossed your mind

You feel more like a sister

And he has lovers of his own

But they’re more like pretty alibis, and he cannot disguise

The things I recognise in those eyes

Oh, baby, you know what I’m saying

You don’t want it to be true

But you can never know a brother’s heart like I do

'cause I have been where he is now

He’s awful nice

But he looks at you with hungry eyes

Oh yes

I wouldn’t wish to make it worse by raising heck about it

There is a quiet understanding that I simply beat him to the prize

But if you must get wise, the answer ever lies in those eyes

Those eyes

It’s that look in his eyes