You Tell Me Lyrics - As If - Thea Gilmore

Well here we are then you and me 

Some little joke of chemistry 

With all our sun bleached history 

Fading as the light gets strong and 

We are brave and we are fakes of 

Tortured art and higher stakes 

And winters knocking at the gates 

But the clocks are wrong 

I am the steel, I am the dare 

The angry kid with mud in her hair 

Setting off those warning flares 

Till the sky got light 

And you are the seasons, you are the free fall 

Here's the smell of tarmac, here's the clarion call 

Here's the reasoning behind it all 

Right here tonight 

'Cause I've struggled for directions 

A blank page as far as I can see 

But I'm open to suggestions 

So you tell me 

You tell me 

You tell me 

The corner cafe got closed down 

A funeral pyre for the wise and the clowns 

A little drunk this time around 

But the feeling's there 

They're drawing out their pocket knives 

Till just the singular survives 

For all the currency it buys 

They don't much care 

'Cause I've struggled for directions 

A blank page as far as I can see 

But I'm open to suggestions 

So you tell me 

You tell me 

You tell me 

Now colours blazing through the sky 

With autumn fury in our eyes 

We'll gather every battle cry 

And lay them at their door 

'Cause for all the reasons that they spent 

To turn poetry to self defence 

I guess that what I really meant 

Was that's what it's for 

But you tell me 

You tell me 

You tell me