Eye Contact - Dan Andriano in the Emergency Room

Up with the sun as these windows rattle

I see a fire burning clean and true

Inhale the smoke and I choke, but it’s worth it

If you would only let me smoke you

Who broke your thumb?

Now I come to realise

Not as important as they always say

Turn off my think, and I live on instinct

If I leave all my wet thoughts outside with the rain

Will you still come and clean me up?

When did it get so hard, to match

This eye contact?

My lens got cracked

Now I can’t see your face

Or find your secret hiding place

So use, your voice

The one I found through so much noise

You saved me once before

And you have got it in you still, I’m sure

In with the tide, now I’m salted and sunburnt

Flow down and windswept to our new home

Look at the sky, and it all seems so simple

So why am I in London drinking alone?

Under the thumb, now I’m old, I realise

Not as important as I always said

You had a right to be worried so early

And I won’t have to ransom for any kind of shame

But you still have to pick me up…

When did it get so hard, to match

This eye contact?

My lens got cracked

Now I can’t see your face

Or find your secret hiding place

Don’t lose, your voice

The one I found through so much noise

You saved me once before

And you have got it in you still, I’m sure

When did it get so hard?

When did it get so hard, to match

This eye contact?

My lens got cracked

Now I can’t see your face

Or find your secret hiding place

So use, your voice

The one I found through so much noise

You saved me once before

And you have got it in you still, I’m sure