The Sweet Anxiety of Infatuation
(Don’t Look at Me)

Bruce Dalzell

I knelt down to touch a leaf

In the distance church bells rang

Eyes wide in disbelief

Above my head angels sang

Toes are numb with expectation

Heads about to explode

And in the middle of desires provocation

You come walking up the road

Just don’t look at me that way

Say what it is that you want to say

Don’t just stand there and let lay

Don’t just look at me that way

I don’t understand that much

The lust for life the lure of speed

And disappearing in a moments touch

Are all the answerers that I need

I’ve come to realize I cannot trust

All I thought I ever knew

Cause truth is just the sunlit dust that

Swirls about the feet of you

Just don’t look at me that way

Say what it is that you want to say

Don’t just stand there and let lay

Don’t just look at me that way

This is the ringing of unquiet desperation

This is the pounding of a troubled heart

This is the moment of inconsolation

This is why the longing starts

This is all that’s left of me

Everything I’m dying for

What you get is what you see

Slipping through an open door