The Longest Stare

Quiet is how you like it



With the follies and the errors



Like on sunday when you asked



"how's your life been



Now that your altar's been torn down?"



I'll be your alibi with sound



In the summer with fortunes



Crossing your path



You look back with a glance



I'll be watching through fences



Locked behind gates



I'll see you walk ahead in years



Silence will be with you



I would not dare to see you stare



If stares were sold in stores



I'd buy you just a few now.



Just enough to get you by



It could be enough until the next time you're gone