Every strangers eyes

INTRO: VERSE: In truck stops, and hamburger joints, In Cadillac limosuines, in the company of Has-beens and bent-backs And sleeping forms on pavement steps, In libraries and railway stations, In books and banks, In the pages of history And suicidal cavalry attacks I recognize Myself in every stranger's eyes. And in wheelchairs by monuments, Under tube trains, commuter accidents, In council care and county courts, At Easter fairs and sea-side resorts, In drawing rooms and city morgues, In award-winning photographs of life-rafts on the China Seas, In transit camps, under arc lamps, on unloading ramps, And faces blurred by rubber stamps I recognize Myself in every stranger's eyes. And now, from where I stand, upon this hill I've plundered from the pool I look around, I search the sky, I shade my eyes so nearly blind And I've seen sights of half-remembered days, I hear bells that chime in strange, familiar ways I recognize the hope you kindle in your eyes It's oh, so easy now, as we lie here in the dark Nothing interferes, it's obvious how to beat the tears that threaten to snuff out the smoke of our love. -0- -1- -0- -0- -2- -3-