Brandi Carlile - A Woman Oversees

One time I went overseas With a woman I know too deep I live and breathe to hold her in I love to hear her speak We went to people's parties And we haunted her old hometown We rambled into restaurants Tracking her old friends down They all knew the magic number The weather, the kids, TV But this is where she pulls the strings And slips into someone's grief She's all tarot cards and gypsy moves She's on fire with listening No one sees it coming, no The canary doesn't sing (sing, sing, sing) She doesn't sing For a woman oversees (sees) (A woman oversees) I feel for them and not because Of what they're going through I'm sure they used to try and reach inside an empty room But she doesn't make it easy (no) She hides behind her hair (hair) She asks too many questions And she cuts you off with care She reaches deep inside you like an open cookie jar And not because you're interesting But to mine your broken heart For borrowed pain to hide behind Divorce, disdain, disease And it ain't like she don't have her own But hers is hers to keep (keep, keep, keep) It's hers to keep For a woman oversees (a woman oversees) And in a chair sat right beside the puppeteer sits me Recognizing maybe that I've said too many things I've fallen prey to conversate, I've spoken her to sleep Even an eviction would be a mercy in that place Wordlessness is cruel, and I can't wipe it off my face I know I need compassion, Lord I'm sure she needs it too She won't even make excuses That would all be too much truth It's too much truth (A woman oversees) When you're this far north of forty The growing's up to you Even if you grow away from me And I'd die to watch you bloom I opened up my eyes one time When I went overseas With a woman no one really knows But I live to hear her speak