The Songs That We Sing

I saw somebody who

Reminded me of you before you got afraid

I wish that you could've stayed that way

I saw a little girl

I stopped and smiled at her

She screamed and ran away

It happens to me more and more these days

And these songs that you sing

Do they mean anything

To the people you're singing them to?

People like you

I saw a photograph

A woman in a bath of hundred dollar bills

If the cold doesn't kill her, money will

I read a magazine

That said by seventeen your life was at an end

I'm dead, and I'm perfectly content

And these songs that I sing

Do they mean anything

To the people I'm singing them to?

People like you

Hmm, hmm

Hmm

Hmm, hmm

Hmm

And these songs that we sing

Do they mean anything

To the people we're singing them to?

Tonight they do

Tonight they do

Tonight they do