Irena Berti - Don’t Look At Me That Way

Don't look at me with reproach in your eyes
Don't look, don't look at me that way
Don't look at me with reproach in your eyes
Don't look, don't look at me that way
I hold no contempt for you, none that I hide
But I love how your gaze softly lingers
And the meek little cunning you wear like a veil
Yes, you seem to me fallen and stretched on the ground
And I'll gladly admit what I'm seeing
Like a fox playing dead in the snow
Luring crows into reach with her scheming
Well, so what — lure away, I won't flinch
Only watch that your fire doesn't fade
For my long-cooled and hollow-out soul
Has been snagged by that trap many times, unafraid
It's not you that I love, darling, not you
Not you, not you that I love
You're an echo, a shadow, a ghost of a face
Through your eyes I see someone I'm dreaming of
Someone I'm dreaming of
Someone I'm dreaming of
She has eyes like the pale summer sky
And she may not appear to be tender
Her face is cool and distant, it's true
But she walked through me — proud, in full splendour
And she shook something deep in my soul
That kind — you don't fool her, don't cloud her — she sees
You don't want to give in — and then do
But you — can't even reach to the heart
With your honeyed and affection-soaked lie
Your lie
Through your face I see someone I'm dreaming of
Someone
Someone I'm dreaming of
And yet, though I look at you cold, I confess
Something hidden, and strange, and forever
If there were no hell and no heaven to dread
Man would still have invented them both, one way or another
Through your face I see someone I'm dreaming of
Someone
Someone I'm dreaming of
Don't look at me with reproach in your eyes
I hold no contempt — none that I hide
Don't look at me with reproach in your eyes
I hold no contempt — none that I hide