Concrete Lyrics - Singles - Thea Gilmore

November in a rainstorm, the truest truth I ever heard 

The sound of babies crying in a hospital ward 

Oh, like a bed of rushes, they spread love out on the concrete floor 

Names, and dates, and faces I really can't remember anymore 

We could hardly tell the difference between one year and another 

Sun like pouring whiskey, snow like shedding skins of lovers 

And, I grew up with magic; free and wild as bindweed 

Pushing for the boundary, pushing through the edges of the concrete 

I'm the girl that bought a round-trip cross the Rubicon 

And I'm not sure that even I know where I'm coming from 

Sentimental tango when I was just fourteen 

I could hear Astaire and Rogers tap their way across the screen 

Oh, bullied and belittled, until the sun set in the concrete 

I wore my sister's black skirt, all dressed up for Halloween 

We could hardly tell the difference between the shouting and the quiet 

It was the path of least resistance to stage my own private riot 

And the walls tumbled like Babel, down around my feet 

Rhyme came in deliverance rising through the wreckage and the concrete 

I'm the girl that bought a round-trip cross the Rubicon 

I'm not sure that even I know where I'm coming from 

For a girl who loves her words, yeah, she loves her silence more 

Found a better example of what hearts and tongues are for 

There is truth in your arm's love, there is truth in this song 

There is truth in the concrete and the nails that our lives are built upon