Concrete-Thea Gilmore

[ti:Concrete] [ar:Thea Gilmore] [al:Recorded Delivery] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Concrete - Thea Gilmore [00:06.95]November in a rainstorm the truest truth I ever heard [00:12.27]The sound of babies crying in a hospital ward [00:18.13]Oh like a bed of rushes [00:20.34]They spread love out on the concrete floor [00:23.48]Names and dates and faces [00:26.24]I really can't remember anymore [00:34.37]We could hardly tell the difference [00:37.25]Between one year and another [00:40.57]Sun like pouring whiskey snow [00:43.13]Like shedding skins of lovers [00:46.19]And I grew up with magic [00:49.07]Free wild as bindweed [00:52.01]Pushing for the boundary [00:55.01]Pushing through the edges of the concrete [01:03.02]I'm the girl bought a round-trip cross the Rubicon [01:09.95] [01:14.14]And I'm not sure that even I know where I'm coming from [01:32.16]Sentimental tango when I was just fourteen [01:37.40]I could hear astaire and Rogers tap their way across the screen [01:43.28]Oh bullied and belittled [01:45.97]Until the sun set in the concrete [01:49.16]I wore my sister's black skirt [01:52.28]All dressed up for Halloween [01:59.96]We could hardly tell the difference [02:02.97]Between the shouting and the quiet [02:06.29]It was the path of least [02:08.17]Resistance to stage my own private riot [02:12.29]And the walls tumbled [02:13.60]Like babel down around my feet [02:17.98]Rhyme came in deliverance [02:20.79]Rising through the wreckage and the concrete [02:28.78]I'm the girl bought a round-trip cross the Rubicon [02:40.28]I'm not sure that even I know [02:46.14]Where I'm coming from [02:57.67] [02:58.30]For a girl who loves her words [03:00.99]Yeah she loves her silence more [03:03.72]Found a better example of [03:06.72]What hearts and tongues are for [03:09.34]There is truth in your arm's love [03:12.65]There is truth in this song [03:15.60]There is truth in the concrete and the nails [03:19.88]That our lives are built upon