Another I stole from Anne Dodson. Ed and Ann loved it on first hearing it and worked on it every extra moment of our last tour. It's a loving look at an important moment which (as Ed says) is too often overlooked, these days. Anne's version will appear on her next album, In It's Own Sweet Time. [GB] For me, this song celebrates a brief time at the start of a love affair when fantasy and expectation are unrestrained and all dreams can be realized. [AMM] Ann: vocal; Ed: guitar and Vocal; Gordon: 'cellamba.
It's in your eyes,
All the things we've been longing to speak of;
It's in your eyes,
But too soon to respond.
The gentle light
That still shines out with confusion,
But, till it's time to speak,
It's in your eyes.
It's in your smile,
The subtle gifts that the years turn to small lines;
It's in your smile,
Lips I only have seen.
Unless the time comes
When those lips turn to know mine,
I live with the unasked questions In your smile.
Speak to me one word
Before the evening's turning;
I'll do the best I can to pay in kind.
There'll never be another time
So sweet with unasked questions.
It's not yet time to speak our mind.
It's in your touch,
That soft, accidental persuasion,
It's in your touch,
The hands that softly brush by;
The strong draw
Between bodies unknowing. Till time finds the answers,
It's in your eyes.
Speak to me ...
(repeat first verse)