Dar Williams - What Do You Hear In These Sounds Lyrics
Words and music by dar williamsI dont go to therapy to find out if Im a freakI go and I find the one and only answer every weekAnd its just me and all the memories to followDown any course that fits within a fifty minute hourAnd we fathom all the mysteries, explicit and inherentWhen I hit a rut, she says to try the other parentAnd shes so kind, I think she wants to tell me something,But she knows that its much better if I get it for myself...And she saysOooooooh,aaaaaaah, what do you hear in these sounds?And... oooooooh,aaaaaaahWhat do you hear in these sounds? ? ? ? ?I say I hear a doubt, with the voice of true believingAnd the promises to stay, and the footsteps that are leavingAnd she says oh, I say what? ...she says exactly,I saywhat, you think Im angryDoes that mean you think Im angry?She says look, you come here every weekWith jigsaw pieces of your pastIts all on little soundbytes and voices out of photographsAnd thats all yours, thats the guide, thats the mapSo tell me, where does the arrow point to?Who invented roses?And.......Oooooooh,aaaaaaahWhat do you hear in these sounds?And...oooooooh,aaaaaaahWhat do you hear in these sounds? ? ? ? ?And when I talk about therapy, I know what people thinkThat it only makes you selfish and in love with your shrinkBut oh how I loved everybody elseWhen I finally got to talk so much about myself............And I wake up and I ask myself what state Im inAnd I say well Im lucky, cause I am like east berlinI had this wall and what I knew of the free worldWas that I could see their fireworksAnd I could hear their radioAnd I thought that if we met, I would only start confessingAnd theyd know that I was scaredTheyd would know that I was guessingBut the wall came down and there they stood before meWith their stumbling and their mumblingAnd their calling out just like me...and...Oooooooh,aaaaaaah, the stories that nobody hears...and...Oooooooh,aaaaaaah, and I collect these sounds in my ears...andOooooooh,aaaaaaah, thats what I hear in these sounds...and...Oooooooh,aaaaaaah, thats what I hear in these......Thats what I hear in these souu ouuun nnnds!
