The Songs That We Sing lyrics

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.

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.

• Artist:Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Album:Stage Whisper