November in a rainstorm, the truest truth I heard The of babies crying in a hospital ward Oh, a bed of rushes, they spread love out on the concrete floor Names, and dates, and faces I really can't remember
We could hardly tell the difference one year and another Sun like pouring whiskey, snow shedding skins of lovers And, I grew up with magic; free and wild as for the boundary, pushing through the edges of the concrete
I'm the that bought a round-trip cross the Rubicon And I'm not that even I know where I'm coming from
Sentimental tango when I was fourteen I could hear Astaire and Rogers tap their way the screen Oh, and belittled, until the sun set in the concrete I wore my sister's black skirt, all dressed up for
We could hardly tell the difference the shouting and the quiet It was the path of least resistance to my own private riot And the walls tumbled Babel, down around my feet Rhyme came in deliverance rising through the wreckage and the
I'm the girl that bought a round-trip cross the I'm not that even I know where I'm coming from
For a girl who loves her words, yeah, she her silence more a better example of what hearts and tongues are for There is truth in your arm's love, there is truth in this There is truth in the concrete and the nails that our lives are upon