David Gray What Are You Lyrics

What Are You Lyrics

What are you?
what are you becoming?
what have you become?

Once you sang your own song
now you`re dancing to the same drum
what have you become?

And what is that you`re wearing?
money`s ugly confidence

You sacrificed the poem of your imagination 
for these pounds and pence

Me I take the cynic`s role
throw scorn on your empty mind
I`ve seen this monotonous world
make dull what used to shine
you lost interest
you lost your spine
oh that spine fine fine

yeah
When there` nothing left
on this plate you`re handed
you find yourself 
running the gauntlet 
of all of these double standards
it`s very thin ice over which you`re skating
and after this black winter the thaw

So what are you
tell me tell me what are you
and what have you become