Lines on the Paper

In an outdoor cafe you drew my picture

Drinking coffee all alone

I looked up and I caught you staring

At a picture all your own

Tell me, what are you seeing

Do you think that I'm alone

And do those lines upon your paper

Say I'm someone that you've known

Well I wonder what you'd do if I told you

That I'm a painter just like you

I paint your picture with these words

Instead of brushes like you do

Now it's a writer or a painter

Who can take a stranger home

Captured in the lines upon the paper

In a picture or a poem

Do you see what I'm seeing

That you're another one alone

And do these lines upon my paper

Say you're someone that I've known