Girl With a Looking Glass Eye

I hear that you live
Now alone with your kid
Was it Julie, Julia or June?
That your mouth's on a lid
And your scars are well hid
To keep her safe from that fool

Are her eyes just like yours?
Can she see through the core?
And find beauty where none can be found
Can she hear through the walls
Of a dictator's halls
Can her voice give the voiceless its sound

My brother and I
We both talk of you still
Of the girl with a looking-glass eye
When the first robin flies
Cross a late August sky
I can still hear him silently cry

Something in him died when you went to the wild
With the girl who went to see the world
Were the rivers as wide
As they were in our minds?
Could you find what you said you would find?

I remember your flight
In the flickering light
An your mother's last scream in the night
Even I could have felt
The beat from his belt
Only luck got you out there alive

I found your address
Written across your dress
On that picture from your wedding day
When you both looked so fine
With your lips intertwined
Now I hope I don't reach you too late

Now the sun's coming up
On the old ruined mill
Where I once almost told you my friend
That I loved you then and I love you still
I love you and I always will

The old hollow oak
Where you never were found
It is still the best place here to hide
Three knocks at the gate
And I wait and I wait
For the girl with a looking glass eye