Eye Contact

from Nosey Neighbours by Clive PiG

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This song was featured in Clive's one man show 'Small Leaps, Giant Steps' directed by Stefan Metz stefanmetz.com
Illustrations by Andrew Kingham www.andrewkingham.co.uk and Hazel Grian hazelgrian.blogspot.com

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Eye Contact

The young man sat at the table
The girl filled the kettle with water
The parents were not in the house
It was 5 o’clock in the morning
She was called Karen
His name was Cliff

They had been to a discotheque
But they had not danced
They had talked a lot
& smoked a lot of cigarettes
Cliff was even a little drunk
But he had driven back
He was the kind of person who never had accidents

& then she said

“Why don’t you look me in the eye when you talk to me?”

She wasn’t angry, but curious
She wanted him to look at her more
She liked him
They had not yet touched

Cliff hadn’t answered
& so, she repeated her question

“Why don’t you look me in the eye when you talk to me?”
Ooh!

“It's disconcerting,” she continued, “because you don 't come across as the type of person who would have difficulty in making and sustaining eye contact, but when you talk to me, you keep looking away, & I find myself looking at what you’re doing rather than listening to what you 're saying …
You look at me
You look away
I look at you
You look away
You look at me
I look at you
You look away
At the four walls
Your eyeballs are like ping pong balls

Boing! from the table
Boing! up to the ceiling
You bounce on to my nose
Your fingernails, my clothes
Then out of the window

Next you at my neck
You look at the floor
You look at my legs
Then you look at the door

My left eye
My right eye
My left
My right
My, how your eyeballs fidget
Now you 're fiddling with your pen
Then off you go again
All around the kitchen

Stop flitting around
Settle down
Stop still & make eyes at me, Cliff!

“Why don ' t you look me in the eye when you talk to me?”
Ooh!

Poor old Cliff,
No-one had ever spoken to him like that before
He wasn’t exactly sure what she was going on about
Cliff was a little puzzled at this sudden outburst.

© Clive PiG

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from Nosey Neighbours, released April 1, 1993
Vox Clive PiG
Vox Ruth Tidmarsh
Acoustic guitar Clive PiG
All other instruments Bill Johnson

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Clive PiG Newton Abbot, UK

Clive PiG is an International Storyteller, musician and potato juggler.
www.clivepig.co.uk

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