Paroles de Sing Alone

I invite you kind patrons to fight in a great war
Something so amazing – you'd never believe in it
It requires more patience than we have to even try to listen to what we don't understand: when to raise our voices.

I was singing alone and I looked out the window
Ready to launch a great powerful assault
On misfortunate experiences fueling my melancholy voice...
But then the wind blew in, startling the hairs on my skin
And it happened so quick – even spiders wouldn't see it comin'!
No, they wouldn't see it comin'!
I arose, on a note – exactly when I heard
The piano hit home with a sound that I couldn't explain... that I couldn't articulate to anyone at all.
So I sang along – I was making out with ivories and
Nothing in the world could make me any happier – or feel more thrilled to be alive.
Then, you walked in – dropped your things, startled at what you saw
Said, to me, “Baby, what's going on?”

I looked up at you, smiling, passion in my face
You said, I was just the same as all the other devastating
Hotshots you've been with – thinking they're something new
Vocalized how I was ordinary and a fool
For sleeping with symphonies, flirting with guitar strings
Professing my love and yes, making out with ivories
And just as you almost left you stopped at the door
When I played the first note and sang and heard you say, “My God, keep going – finally, something that I've never heard before.”
With names inconceivable – they can't even be imagined yet, no they can't...
A peace will eventually advance to those who hear and see
this picture – truly abandoned of words, or a perfect non-subjective definition of the world...
For now, I'm sure it's the best thing that we have got
It's something we really don't encounter too often these days...
I don't hear it anymore – people declaring “I've never heard this before!”

Raise your voice
Strike the bones with
Ballads of your own
Please, stop singing alone!