Describe You Lyrics - Nico Muhly

I was trying to describe you to someone 

You don't look like anyone I've seen before 

I couldn't say she looks just like Jane Fonda 

You don't look like Jane Fonda at all 

I finally ended up describing you as a movie I saw when I was a child 

I think I was seven or eight or six 

It was a movie about rural electrification 

The movie 

It was about farmers living in the country without electricity 

They didn't have any appliances and they had to use lanterns 

They put poles across the countryside 

Strong wire over fields and pastures 

There was an incredible heroic dimension 

The movie showed electricity like a young greek god coming to take away forever dark ways of life.