Loud Eyes Lyrics

Dark hair

Thin waist

And an attitude that says that she don't care

Don't waste

Your time

Kind of hard when the heart doesn't beat straight

Skipping lines

Sealed fate

Doing time in a prison-like illusion where she's mine

Pale face

Inked thigh

Nor the whiskey or the stage seems to make her go away

Loud eyes

Lips pressed

An ice sculpture of a lady in a black dress

Blackbird

She melts

As I put a smile with a song into her head

Too close

To the sun

She flies back to the cold comfort that she knows

Am I

The one

Or just someone to fill her time and make her feel less alone

Would she

Say yes

To anyone's attention just to not be by herself

Lost in

Her mind

It's a tricky but familiar maze of storms and valentines

She tries

To feel

But there's a wall that she put up to fight the bad ideas

I know

There's more

My wall is twice as high, but for her I made a door

She's walking on the edge

I'm riding that thin line

I see behind her eyes

And scared away she flies

And at times we stopped time

As we lay on a bridge and we talk through the night

And at times we skipped time

As we leave, and we love, and get mad, and it's fine

And at times there's no time

As we chase our aspirations with our future on the line

And I wonder if it's time

To seal the door and live a lie or come back and make her mine