Jane Siberry You Say I Say Lyrics

You Say I Say Lyrics

You say you are standing alone in the middle of a vast emptiness that stretches
as far as you can see. There are no signs of life. Only a grainy blue sea that
moves around you like some kind of drunken ocean. Around you but not me. The
word you used, I believe, was... desolate.



I say you are in a waiting
room full of people. Your mother is talking to the woman at the desk. And on
the bench under the clock is an Italian family. They all have brown eyes. They
are looking at us.



You say you are standing alone in a barren
landscape.

You have scanned the blue emptiness countless times and found
nothing.

You have raised your voice to the ceiling of the vast expanse and
it has held no recognition.



I say you are in a waiting room full of
people. And I am holding your right hand. We are all watching the woman at the
desk. Her shoes sigh as she moves about. It is exactly 3:10 in the
morning.



You say you are standing alone.

What is this loneliness
that you feel?

What is this loneliness that you cannot seem to
shake?



You say you are standing alone in the blue tinge of an unfixed
photo. And the only voices you hear are grainy and urgent and grate across your
soul in a series of moving lines like sandbars. You have stopped calling out
because you called out and your voice never came back.



And I say you
are in a waiting room full of people. We are all looking at the clock. And now
the woman at the desk is speaking to your mother. The Italian family is looking
at you.



I go to the window and look out at the darkness.