November in a rainstorm, the truest truth I heard The sound of babies crying in a ward Oh, like a bed of rushes, they spread love out on the concrete Names, and dates, and faces I really can't remember
We could tell the difference between one year and another Sun like pouring whiskey, snow like skins of lovers And, I grew up with magic; free and as bindweed Pushing for the boundary, through the edges of the concrete
I'm the girl that bought a cross the Rubicon And I'm not sure that I know where I'm coming from
tango when I was just fourteen I could hear Astaire and Rogers tap way across the screen Oh, bullied and belittled, until the sun set in the I my sister's black skirt, all dressed up for Halloween
We could hardly the difference between the shouting and the quiet It was the path of resistance to stage my own private riot And the walls tumbled like Babel, around my feet came in deliverance rising through the wreckage and the concrete
I'm the girl that bought a round-trip cross the 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 this There is truth in the and the nails that our lives are built upon