Carry a Tune

Carry A Tune
(c) 2020 Aaron Nathans

You see colors I don’t, sounds I can’t hear
You have a third eye and a fourth and fifth ear
You’re in your own world, but then you appear
Like you’ve been there all along

You bounce to the beat that you hear in your head
You’re wearing the words of old books that you read
And you’re bearing the scars of the life you fled
Won’t you sing for me a song

Whereever you go, you carry a tune
Weightless and wild, deep as the moon
And I wonder if I’ll be seeing you soon

A neighborhood bar, a pen and a pad
A table for one, they’re keeping your tab
You keep your hand moving in the back of a cab
And I wonder if you think of me

What I wouldn’t give to climb into your head
To hear what you hear, and to sing what you said
But I guess it’s enough to watch you instead
And I’m thankful I can do that

Whereever you go, you carry a tune
Weightless and wild, deep as the moon
And I wonder if I’ll be seeing you soon

Wherever you go, you carry a tune
Whereever I go, I want to carry it too
And I wonder if I’ll be seeing you soon

A concert for one, I’ll pull up a chair
I will sit here, and you can sit there
You open your lips and then you disappear
Into a song