Over the Rhine - Sister lyrics

You say he feels it His face reveals it My sweet trepidation An eagerness of my own A shiver ships through my bones Can you see cobblestone roads Running through his stare He's so clandestine He's such a vision So tell me sister He sits here in this small dive There's something behind those eyes Did you perceive the wilderness Resting there... so did I Laughing he stalls me Crazy he calls me He thinks me artless For not stocking berry wines From certain australian vines Have mercy sister He's travelled ‘round the world He's like a shadow There by the window But no man's an island No man's an artesian well He loves the cathedral bell It sings about him When he goes home at night... so do I