You Tell Me

Well here we are then you and me
 Some little joke of chemistry
 With all our sun bleached history
 Fading as the light gets strong and
 We are brave and we are fakes of
 Tortured art and higher stakes
 And winters knocking at the gates
 But the clocks are wrong
 I am the steel, I am the dare
 The angry kid with mud in her hair
 Setting off those warning flares
 Till the sky got light
 And you are the seasons, you are the free fall
 Here's the smell of tarmac, here's the clarion call
 Here's the reasoning behind it all
 Right here tonight
 'Cause I've struggled for directions
 A blank page as far as I can see
 But I'm open to suggestions
 So you tell me
 You tell me
 You tell me
 The corner cafe got closed down
 A funeral pyre for the wise and the clowns
 A little drunk this time around
 But the feeling's there
 They're drawing out their pocket knives
 Till just the singular survives
 For all the currency it buys
 They don't much care
 'Cause I've struggled for directions
 A blank page as far as I can see
 But I'm open to suggestions
 So you tell me
 You tell me
 You tell me
 Now colours blazing through the sky
 With autumn fury in our eyes
 We'll gather every battle cry
 And lay them at their door
 'Cause for all the reasons that they spent
 To turn poetry to self defence
 I guess that what I really meant
 Was that's what it's for
 But you tell me
 You tell me
 You tell me