Tuesday, October 27, 2009


WHAT DO YOU HEAR IN THESE SOUNDS

Song of the day by one of my favs, Dar Williams. Click here to watch the YouTube video.

"What Do You Hear in These Sounds"
Words and music by Dar Williams

I don't go to therapy to find out if I'm a freak
I go and I find the one and only answer every week
And it's just me and all the memories to follow
Down any course that fits within a fifty minute hour
And we fathom all the mysteries, explicit and inherent
When I hit a rut, she says to try the other parent
And she's 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 says

Oooooooh,aaaaaaah, What do you hear in these sounds?
And... Oooooooh,aaaaaaah
What do you hear in these sounds?????

I say I hear a doubt, with the voice of true believing
And the promises to stay, and the footsteps that are leaving
And she says "Oh", I say "What?"...she says "Exactly",
I say "What, you think I'm angry
Does that mean you think I'm angry?"
She says "Look, you come here every week
With jigsaw pieces of your past
Its all on little soundbytes and voices out of photographs
And that's all yours, that's the guide, that's the map
So tell me, where does the arrow point to?
WHO INVENTED ROSES?"
and.......

Oooooooh,aaaaaaah
What do you hear in these sounds?
And...Oooooooh,aaaaaaah
What do you hear in these sounds?????

And when I talk about therapy, I know what people think
That it only makes you selfish and in love with your shrink
But Oh how I loved everybody else
When I finally got to talk so much about myself............

And I wake up and I ask myself what state I'm in
And I say well I'm lucky, cause I am like East Berlin
I had this wall and what I knew of the free world
Was that I could see their fireworks
And I could hear their radio
And I thought that if we met, I would only start confessing
And they'd know that I was scared
They'd would know that I was guessing
But the wall came down and there they stood before me
With their stumbling and their mumbling
And 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...and

Oooooooh,aaaaaaah, that's what I hear in these sounds...and...

Oooooooh,aaaaaaah, that's what I hear in these......
that's what I hear in these SOUU OUUUN NNNDS!

9 comments:

fullsoulahead.com said...

"But Oh how I loved everybody else
When I finally got to talk so much about myself............"

Love this.

pixiemama said...

I love this song. We heard her sing it live at the Philly Folk Fest right after that album came out. Every time I hear it, I see J and I, newlyweds, singing, swaying under the stars to the smell of deliciously awful fried foods.

That's what I hear in those sounds.

Thanks for the reminder. It was right on time.

Anonymous said...

Wow great song!

Deb Shucka said...

Thank you. Love.

Tanya @ TeenAutism said...

"well I'm lucky, cause I am like East Berlin" - what a great line.

Lola said...

LOVE this!

Anonymous said...

i LOVE dar.

i think i'm going to be seeing you next week, yes?

could it be true?

Angie Ledbetter said...

That was fun!

kario said...

Skipped therapy today.

Oh, no, I think I just had a session. Thanks! This one didn't cost me a copay!