You Say I Say

[Verse 1]
You say
You are standing alone in the middle of a vast emptiness
That stretches as far as you can see
There are no signs of life
Only a grainy blue sea
That moves around you like some kind of drunken ocean
Around you but not me
The word you used, I believe, was... desolate

[Verse 2]
I say, no
No, you are in a waiting room full of people
Your mother is talking to the woman
The woman over there at the desk
And on the bench under the clock, see it?
Under the clock is an Italian family
Look, they all have brown eyes
They are looking at us

[Verse 3]
You say
You are standing alone in a barren landscape
You have scanned the blue emptiness countless times
And found nothing
You have raised your voice to the ceiling of the vast expanse
And it has held no recognition

[Verse 4]
I say, no
You are in a waiting room full of people
And I am holding your right hand
We are all watching the woman at the desk
Her shoes sigh as she moves about
It is exactly 3:10 in the morning

[Verse 5]
You say
You are standing alone
What is this loneliness that you feel?
What is this loneliness that you cannot seem to shake?
You say you are standing alone
In a blue-tinged unfixed photo
The only voices you hear are grainy and urgent
And they grate across your soul
Like a series of moving lines, like sandbars
You have stopped calling out
Because you called out and your voice never came back

[Verse 6]
And I say, no
No, it's okay
You're in a waiting room full of people
We're all looking at the clock
And, and now the woman at the desk
She and your mother
She is speaking to your mother
The Italian family is watching you
But I go to the window
I go to look out at the darkness

[Outro]
I know there's a place that you call your own
And you're safe and warm and you feel like you're home
And the peace—