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You Are Her​(​e)

from Hopeful Monsters by The Arts and Sciences

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lyrics

This song is a new one
Sit down, settle in
There’s not much chance
that you’ve heard it before
so let’s just begin

I can’t say that I blame you
when you’re not surprised
to see her unwittingly claim me
and watch me hide her
in this line

The chorus has come
and I’ve yet to begin to explain
and I’m starting to lose my nerve
But a self-stolen chord change
can’t do enough to cover your impatience
Please let me name it first
“You Are Her(e)”

I should be more clear
now the second verse has started
But I’m thinking of her in her room
Now she’s hearing this song
for the first time

It’s so hard to follow I know
This chorus is lost in the sheets
and the curve of her leg
Maybe you’ll strain to hear
My words are obscured
as they trail down the small of her back and disappear
You are here

The message I can’t deliver maybe this song will surrender
“All the lives I could have led begin here”
In the light inside her secret sphere

Maybe your finger hovers
an inch above the power switch
when you find
this self-stolen chord change
can’t do enough to cover and you’re surprised to find
that you are her
You are her

(©2005 UbikMusik, BMI)

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from Hopeful Monsters, released March 18, 2005

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