Lily Talmers - Hope at Table, Talking Shop (La Solitude) lyrics
[Lily Talmers - Hope at Table, Talking Shop La Solitude lyrics]
You eat or you get eaten you
Jump or you get jumped
And behind the weary curtain is
A loving whore called hope
She’s rambunctious as a tiger
Always tearing holes in things
Leaving hearts so wide and gaping
One is useless but to sing
Sing of love or of betrayal, doesn’t matter
She is there behind every disappointment
Behind every hook and snare
She’ll embrace you for a moment
Then she’ll turn and kill the mood
With some heinous imposition
Like "I thought you understood"
But you couldn’t seek to hurt her
For she’s gentle as a dove
She’s within the every smile of
The humans that you love
She is homesick but resilient she
Is cunning as she’s cruel
She’ll remind you of your freedom as
She’s spelling out her rules
One: you eat or you get eaten
Two: you jump or you get jumped
The deceiver and deceived are at
The table talking shop
Just as Judas turns to Jesus
Hope flies off the dirty scene
Saying "good luck sorting this one
I will see you in between"
How she’s loved and how she’s hated
But sought after all the same
I cave in and go a-knocking when
I think that I’m to blame
For the silly things that hearts do
When there’s no way to explain
Why his love has dissipated
Or goes by another name
We eat and we are eaten
Jointly nourished and consumed
We are patient while we’re able
Later selfish and then cruel
We are helpless as a newborn and
Then hungry as a dog
And then wounded as a nightingale
Who never found her song
When I find I’m at the
Table with my brethren, talking shop
She’s the wisest one among us, yes our kind
Deceitful hope
Just as she brought us together
She must tear us now apart
With our dreams and our decisions
We are brought back to the start
You eat or you get eaten
As you jump or you get jumped
And behind that scarlet curtain is
A loving whore called hope
She says "I am just a human
Bound to fall towards anything
Much like you my heart is gaping
I am useless but to sing"
Jump or you get jumped
And behind the weary curtain is
A loving whore called hope
She’s rambunctious as a tiger
Always tearing holes in things
Leaving hearts so wide and gaping
One is useless but to sing
Sing of love or of betrayal, doesn’t matter
She is there behind every disappointment
Behind every hook and snare
She’ll embrace you for a moment
Then she’ll turn and kill the mood
With some heinous imposition
Like "I thought you understood"
But you couldn’t seek to hurt her
For she’s gentle as a dove
She’s within the every smile of
The humans that you love
She is homesick but resilient she
Is cunning as she’s cruel
She’ll remind you of your freedom as
She’s spelling out her rules
One: you eat or you get eaten
Two: you jump or you get jumped
The deceiver and deceived are at
The table talking shop
Just as Judas turns to Jesus
Hope flies off the dirty scene
Saying "good luck sorting this one
I will see you in between"
How she’s loved and how she’s hated
But sought after all the same
I cave in and go a-knocking when
I think that I’m to blame
For the silly things that hearts do
When there’s no way to explain
Why his love has dissipated
Or goes by another name
We eat and we are eaten
Jointly nourished and consumed
We are patient while we’re able
Later selfish and then cruel
We are helpless as a newborn and
Then hungry as a dog
And then wounded as a nightingale
Who never found her song
When I find I’m at the
Table with my brethren, talking shop
She’s the wisest one among us, yes our kind
Deceitful hope
Just as she brought us together
She must tear us now apart
With our dreams and our decisions
We are brought back to the start
You eat or you get eaten
As you jump or you get jumped
And behind that scarlet curtain is
A loving whore called hope
She says "I am just a human
Bound to fall towards anything
Much like you my heart is gaping
I am useless but to sing"