Words and music by Dar Williams
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I don't go to therapy to find out if I'm a freak
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I go and I find the one and only answer every week
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And it's just me and all the memories to follow
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Down any course that fits within a fifty minute hour
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And we fathom all the mysteries, explicit and inherent
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When I hit a rut, she says to try the other parent
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And she's so kind, I think she wants to tell me something,
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But she knows that its much better if I get it for myself...
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And she says
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Oooooooh,aaaaaaah, What do you hear in these sounds?
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And... Oooooooh,aaaaaaah
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What do you hear in these sounds?????
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I say I hear a doubt, with the voice of true believing
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And the promises to stay, and the footsteps that are leaving
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And she says "Oh", I say "What?"...she says "Exactly",
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I say"What, you think I'm angry
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Does that mean you think I'm angry?"
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She says "Look, you come here every week
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With jigsaw pieces of your past
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Its all on little soundbytes and voices out of photographs
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And that's all yours, that's the guide, that's the map
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So tell me, where does the arrow point to?
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WHO INVENTED ROSES?"
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and.......
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Oooooooh,aaaaaaah
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What do you hear in these sounds?
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And...Oooooooh,aaaaaaah
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What do you hear in these sounds?????
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And when I talk about therapy, I know what people think
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That it only makes you selfish and in love with your shrink
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But Oh how I loved everybody else
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When I finally got to talk so much about myself............
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And I wake up and I ask myself what state I'm in
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And I say well I'm lucky, cause I am like East Berlin
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I had this wall and what I knew of the free world
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Was that I could see their fireworks
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And I could hear their radio
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And I thought that if we met, I would only start confessing
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And they'd know that I was scared
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They'd would know that I was guessing
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But the wall came down and there they stood before me
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With their stumbling and their mumbling
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And their calling out just like me...and...
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Oooooooh,aaaaaaah, The stories that nobody hears...and...
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Oooooooh,aaaaaaah, and I collect these sounds in my ears...and
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Oooooooh,aaaaaaah, that's what I hear in these sounds...and...
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Oooooooh,aaaaaaah, that's what I hear in these......
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that's what I hear in these SOUU OUUUN NNNDS!
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What Do You Hear in These Sounds
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| Dar Williams |
