Dar Williams Are You Out There Lyrics

Are You Out There Lyrics




Words and music by Dar Williams

Perhaps I am a miscreation
No one
knows the truth there is no future here
And you're the DJ speaks to my
insomnia
And laughs at all I have to fear
Laughs at all I have to
fear
You always play the madmen poets
Vinyl vision grungy bands
You
never know who's still awake
You never know who understands and

Are
you out there, can you hear this?
Jimmy Olson, Johnny Memphis,
I was out
here listening all the time
And though the static walls surround me
You
were out there and you found me
I was out here listening all the
time

Last night we drank in parking lots
And why do we drink? I guess
we do it cause
And when I turned your station on 
You sounded more
familiar than that party was
You were more familiar than that party
It's
the first time I stayed up all night
It's getting light I hear the
birds
I'm driving home on empty streets
I think I put my shirt on
backwards

Are you out there, can you hear this 
Jimmy Olson , Johnny
Memphis
I was out here listening all the time
And though the static walls
surround me 
You were out there and you found me
I was out here listening
all the time

And what's the future, who will choose it?
Politics of
love and music
Underdogs who turn the tables
Indie versus major
labels
There's so much to see through
Like our parents do more drugs than
we do
Oh....

Corporate parents, corporate towns
I know every TV set
that has them lit
They preach that I should save the world 
They pray that
I won't do a better job of it
Pray that I won't do a better job
So tonight
I turned your station on just so I'd be understood
Instead another voice said
I was just too late
And just no good....

Calling Olson, Calling
Memphis
I am calling, can you hear this?
I was out here listening all the
time
And I will write this down
and then I will not be alone again
yeah
I was out here listening
Oh yeah I was out here listening
Oh yeah
I am out here listening all the time