You Say I Say Lyrics - Jane Siberry

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