Eyes Out For You

Eyes Out For You - Joe Henry

A fence is stretched across my brow

A divided country then and now

And you the border guard

My caravan waved off the track

With dusty miners hid in back

Their faces glowing hard

Bruised and black and hunkered down

From sparkling fuses underground

And digging the way through

To surface on some other side

With time to kill a past to hide

And one eye out for you

With letters cut from magazines

I hide my hand and speak between

The truth and what I need

I lift the face of someone strong

To mask the shadow growing long

And blur what it concedes

I've found myself out on a range

Found the mirror staring strange

Demanding what I knew

Of tell-tale stripes across my back

The eyes I keep each blue and black

And both of them out for you

Now I've crossed into some northern town

Where winds rise up and stars come down

And no one knows my name

I stitch a coat from what I find

And weave a story in my mind

With nothing such as blame

I scrawl out pages watch them burn

The jumpy horses nod in turn

The way I need them to

Before I run them to the fields

As buildings blaze and dot the hills

Like all eyes out for you

Like all eyes out for you

Like all eyes out for you