5:06 AM (Every Strangers Eyes)

You wanna cup of coffee?

I'm sorry, would you like a cup of coffee?

Okay, you take cream and sugar?

Sure

In truck stops and hamburger joints

In Cadillac limousines

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

In suicidal cavalry attacks, I recognize

Myself, in every stranger's eyes

And in wheelchairs, by monuments

Under the tube trains and commuter accidents

In council care and country courts

At Easter fairs and seaside resorts

In drawing boards and city morgues

In award-winning photographs

On life rafts on the China seas

In transit camps, under arc lamps

On unloading ramps, in faces blurred by rubber stamps, I recognize

Myself, in every stranger's eyes

And now

From where I stand

Upon this hill

I plundered from the pool

I look around

I search the skies

I shade my eyes

So nearly blind

And I see signs

Of half remembered days

I hear bells that chime

In strange familiar ways, I recognize

The hope you kindle in your eyes

It's all 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 spark of our love