I Don’t Know Your Name – Second Language

I Don't Know Your Name

I don’t know your name
I never saw your face
And if it’s all the same
I’ll find another place

I don’t know from confidence
I never had that knack
I ain’t got a lick of common sense
And my eyes only look back

My diary was spun from gold
I found a way to just withhold
I never came in from the cold
Then I was young, now I’m just old

It’s faulty wiring
Dirty contacts
I’m strung so tight can’t hardly move
Disintegrating

I got lost deep inside you
I can’t find my way out

Just when I think
You can’t get any lower
I fall through your trapdoor
And shrink like a violet

There is no chance I’d disappear
No matter how hard I try
There’s no way back at all from here
Don’t tell me how to sing my song
Don’t tell me how to sing my song

Your eyes a perfect picture
Your eyes two broken mirrors
Your words discrete assassins
Your face a graceful cipher

Don’t know your name
I never saw your face
And if it’s all the same

It’s my heart you keep bypassing
You drive the hardest bargain
I don’t know when to quit

Your eyes a perfect picture
Your eyes two broken mirrors
Your words discrete assassins
You drive the hardest bargain
I don’t know when to quit

Studio improvisation July 7, 2022.

Jessie Jacobson: Vocal, Guitar
Jarrett Lesko: Bass
Brian Bielski: Drums