IF YOU LOOK INTO HER EYES
(Otto Harbach / Louis A. Hirsch,   1917)


A maiden's lips no longer express things that she'd have you know; 
She says "no," but means to say "yes," 
When you're to stay says, "Go!" 
But Mother Nature's worked out a plan, 
Easy for him who tries; 
If a girl is fooling a man, 
He need but watch her eyes.

Language is the art to conceal 
Feelings and thoughts, we're told. 
Speech is silver, poets reveal, 
Silence they say is gold.
What they mean is easily shown, 
Listen and you'll be wise;
Close a girl's lips tight with your own, 
then she just can't tell lies.

She'll tell you what you're to do, dear, 
If you'll look in her eyes
What is expected of you, dear, 
You will have to surmise. 
She may not say one word yet 
Some how you'll get a sort of knowing look, 
Sort of glowing look; 
She'll tell you what you're to do, dear, 
If you'll look in her eyes.