From the album Dear April (Side A - Acoustic) - Single
This is a prayer to time itself. Frank addresses April like a person who orchestrated everything, the month that brought two strangers together and the same force that will carry him through what comes after they split. He is asking if April is still watching over the person he lost, because he cannot anymore.
Dear April / The only face in the crowd that I know
April is not a person in the crowd. It is the only constant he can recognize in a room full of strangers. The intimacy of addressing a month by name turns calendar time into the closest thing he has left to a witness.
Are you watchin' him? / Are you watchin' him dance?
The repetition is not emphasis. It is checking twice because he needs to believe someone is still keeping an eye on this person now that he is not there to do it. Dancing implies joy, movement forward, life continuing without him.
If you could take two strangers / Leaning left and right / At a certain place and time
Leaning left and right suggests bodies almost missing each other, off balance until they connect. The vagueness of 'a certain place and time' makes it feel accidental, like April just happened to tilt two lives into each other and call it fate.
What we had won't be the same now / But you will make something new
He stops asking April to recreate the past. The shift to future tense is acceptance that whatever April makes next will not look like what they had, but it will still be something. The faith is in the process, not the outcome.
Dear April / Are you watchin' him dance?
Ending where it started but now the question hits different. The whole song has been him working up to letting go, and this final ask is both a goodbye and a hand-off. He is trusting April to take over.
Frank turns a breakup into a conversation with the calendar. April is the only witness left, the only thing that saw them whole and might see him whole again. He is not asking for the past back. He is asking if the same force that brought them together can do it again, for someone else, somewhere down the line.