Face to Face

Face To Face

Baby, I received your note

I read those angry sentences you wrote

Listing every stumble in my fall from grace

And it was with deep regret

I rolled your note into a cigarette

And I inhaled your harsh words

Like you’d said ‘em face to face

And every word rang stone-cold true

From a tunnel-vision point of view

And every smoke ring that I blew

Had your lipstick’s taste

And all that I could think about

When that cigarette had been snuffed out

Were all those hours we’d spent burning face to face

Face to face, baby, we were mouth to mouth

We were twisted up into a knot

Now you turn your back and take this parting shot

But between your rock and my hard place

I still see us locked in that embrace

Breathing life into each other face to face

Baby, I remain your friend

But refuse to smoke this bitter end

You and I are bound to meet up sometime, someplace

And if we can just break the ice

The lightening might just strike us senseless twice

And spark that old electric tension

Throw a jolt of recognition

Between kindred apparitions

Meeting . . .

Face to face, baby, we were mouth to mouth

We were all twisted into a knot

Now you turn your back and take your parting shot

But between your rock and my hard place

I still see us locked in that embrace

Breathing life into each other face to face