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Eyes on the ceilings and eyes on the holes in the walls.
Eyes on your feelings and eyes on a list of your calls.
Eyes making eyes at the passersby and following them as they walk.
Eyes are in focus and vigilant after a warning.

I'd be an eye if they eyed me when there was a job,
Eyeing through data and ID-ing various mobs.
Eyeing the eyes we had seen before, connecting a face to its talk.
Eyeing the protesters protesting that very morning.

So, when you're dancing all alone, you're not alone anymore
Because I'd be with you, baby.

I'd be an eye if a chance to be any arose.
I could be watching a person who already knows
What a real person might think about or do with herself in a day.
I could be watching an actual method of being.

So, when you're sleeping all alone, you're not alone anymore,
Because I'm with you, baby.

If I were an eye,
high in the city sky,
I'd do it right
and pierce the night
By training my sight
on whatever is bright
within your life.
I am the knife
That frees what is caught,
and opens what's bought,
and kills what is fought.
I'm an eye.

I'd be an eye if it could bring me closer to you.
I'd look through borders and see for myself what is true.
I'd be a force no one's seen before, and no one would stand in my way.
I'd be creating myself through the process of seeing.

So, when you wake up all alone, you're not alone anymore
Because I'm with you, baby.

If I were an eye,
high in the city sky,
I'd do it right
and pierce the night
By training my sight
on whatever is bright
within your life.
I am the knife
That frees what is caught,
and opens what's bought,
and kills what is fought.
I'm an eye.

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from A Year Selling Fire Escapes, released March 28, 2023

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Evening Man Washington, D.C.

Evening Man is singer/songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Paul Erik Lipp. He currently lives and works in Connecticut.

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