Song for You - The Smith Street Band

Rejections a constant, bitterness comes with age

Once or twice a lifetime you get days like today

And I hope no one pissed on this milk crate

I hope no pissed on this milk crate

Where there’s no tidying up

And nothing falls and no one breaks

You can’t say I’m disgusting

If you don’t mean it that way

And I hope no one comes down this laneway

I hope no one comes down this laneway

And I woke up before the sun in the arms of a tough girl

Heard me speaking lately you’ve

Heard me speaking about her and

Last night I said, «I love you» without a hint of fear

Last night I said, «I love you» nothing exploded, no one disappeared

And the realisation shatters through me

That I’m the villain in this movie

But I’ve got no script and no direction

I just want you to let me love you

I just want you to let me love you

I just wanted you to let me

Dialogue is diluted by strangers and thin walls

Little murmur runs through the audience

The first time he calls

You hang up and a sinking feeling falls amongst the crowd

Someone whispers to their wife

«My god, what’s she doing now?»

«My future never really mattered much at all,»

I mutter to you down a telephone lying on the bathroom floor

And last night I said, «I love you» without fear

Last night I said, «I love you» and I disappeared

And the realisation shatters through me

That I’m the villain in this movie

But I’ve got no script and no direction

I just want you to let me love you

I just want you to let me love you

I just wanted you to let me

And all I think I’d need to cast off insecurities

Is for you to write something for me

Like I write for you incessantly

But I don’t live in your mind the way that you do in mine

And my feet stick to the floor of the shower

But we get evicted in three-quarters of an hour

And you rub paw-paw on a new tattoo and say, «One day there’ll be a song about

you.»

One day there’ll be a song for you

One day there’ll be a song about you

One day there’ll be a song for you

One day there’ll be a song about you

And I know that you hated me that time

But I’ve made up for that now haven’t I?

Soaked in spotlights spitting vitriol without the corresponding kind

One day there’ll be a song for you

One day there’ll be a song about you

One day there’ll be a song for you

One day there’ll be a song about you