Thea Gilmore - This Girl Is Taking Bets lyrics

This girl is a stencil of
A brushstroke in the rain
She's a ghost of the city
She's a body through the windscreen
This girl is the snowfall where
The spring should have been
She's the stains on the pages
Of a top shelf magazine

This girl is a black eye
She's a bruise on your knee
She's the ashes of the people that
You really meant to be
This girl's the resurrection
She's the comeback
She's the absinthe and whiskey
She is poetry and Prozac

This girl is taking bets
This girl's a silhouette, can't you see?

This girl is the flutter of
Fake lashes in the mirror
She's a ragged edged fedora
Or a Spanish souvenir
This girl is the clean cut
She's the frozen ground
She's a knife drawn down the side
Street when there's no-one else around

This girl's a forged ticket to
A Lloyd Webber show
She's the far end of the graveyard
Up where the nettles grow
This girl is the rainbow in
The dewy eyed stares
She's the name tag on the toe
Of your long dead love affairs

This girl is taking bets
This girl's a silhouette, can't you see?
This girl is taking bets
This girl's a silhouette, can't you see?

This girl is the wild smile, the icy stare
She's the crackle of the
Static, she's the curses, she's the prayers
This girl is the junkie
In the children's matinee
She's the 4 minute warning
She is hell to pay

This girl is the plunge pool
She is cocaine and Kodak
Now she's out setting sail on
The ocean of the soundtrack
This girl is the shaking hand
The rattling cup with a button and a note
Saying things are looking up