She Looked Like You
(A.Waters)
I met a girl she looked like you but she was not this much was clear And from the corner of her tears the light comes shinin' on through She said I don't think that it's me, I said you're wrong it's a disguise She laughed and told me I was sweet for all my petty little lies
I said the lies are yours to keep and they are sacred and a vow And when you shout them, shout them loud or give them back to me She said I'll whisper them like prayers and I will cloak them in a song And when a song hangs in the air I'll turn the radio on
And when she claimed I didn't hear, I read her lips and stood the glare And every curse and hollow sneer and every letter, truth and dare Undid me like the morning after, three straight weeks of oil and water Give me up or give me shelter give me fire, give me air
We talked some more outside she gave me her address Drag me to heaven, I must've died pinch me if I haven't yet
She took a charm from a folded rag she never said that it was for luck She says to rub it like you mean it when you wanna be had and like you had it when you didn't have much And what I see are her limitless eyes for her part I cannot say But if she looks for rhyme in a tangle of lies then she may yet look my way
And if the war is all but over if beside the field, a river Bends the way a drunk would sober kneel before a cup of razors If behind the line of fires, smoking shells, coils of wire If I see her, hear her laughter, breathe her under, taste her sighs
She hailed a cab and then I watched her through the glass And wondered would her hair be red and would the money last Then I myself departed with the trinket she'd given me still Wrapped in the rags inside my bag I walked on down the hill
