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