Belle Sebastian Storytelling Lyrics

Storytelling Lyrics

Picture a scene in your mind

Looks at all the people and take note of the setting behind

Listen, watch, and wait

A plot begins to take shape

There's a story

And then characters will come to you

Relating events as they choose to

But all their words and actions come entirely from you



If you're a storyteller you might think you're without responsibility

And you can lead your characters anywhere you want

You have immunity



Have you considered the way

People might react to all the things that your characters say?

And are their actions hand in hand with what you wantto portay?

Are you sick?

Are you crippled? Insane?

Expressing the desires that daren't speak their name?

Are you the one to be blamed?



Now you're a storyteller you might think you are without responsability

But in directions, actions and words

Cause and effect

You need consistency



How can you finish the tale?

Lives which have played a part

Are summarised from the very start

And episodes left out to make it all go our way

"It's a might big world

Some of it I've seen

But mostly I've only heard

And stories are all fiction from their moment of birth"



You're just a storyteller

You're not trying to escape responsability

If we believe you then you're succesful

But you don't make claims of verity