Jane Siberry - Pop

You Say I Say

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[Verse 1] You say You are standing alone in the middle of a vast emptiness That stretches as far as you can see There are no signs of life Only a grainy blue sea That moves around you like some kind of drunken ocean Around you but not me The word you used, I believe, was... desolate [Verse 2] I say, no No, you are in a waiting room full of people Your mother is talking to the woman The woman over there at the desk And on the bench under the clock, see it? Under the clock is an Italian family Look, they all have brown eyes They are looking at us [Verse 3] You say You are standing alone in a barren landscape You have scanned the blue emptiness countless times And found nothing You have raised your voice to the ceiling of the vast expanse And it has held no recognition [Verse 4] I say, no You are in a waiting room full of people And I am holding your right hand We are all watching the woman at the desk Her shoes sigh as she moves about It is exactly 3:10 in the morning [Verse 5] You say You are standing alone What is this loneliness that you feel? What is this loneliness that you cannot seem to shake? You say you are standing alone In a blue-tinged unfixed photo The only voices you hear are grainy and urgent And they grate across your soul Like a series of moving lines, like sandbars You have stopped calling out Because you called out and your voice never came back [Verse 6] And I say, no No, it's okay You're in a waiting room full of people We're all looking at the clock And, and now the woman at the desk She and your mother She is speaking to your mother The Italian family is watching you But I go to the window I go to look out at the darkness [Outro] I know there's a place that you call your own And you're safe and warm and you feel like you're home And the peace—

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Writers: Jane Siberry

You Say I Say

You Say I Say

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