Welcome to My Song, My Home. In this podcast, we travel around the UK and meet musicians. In this episode we visit Liverpool to meet Grace. Grace tells us how she started learning the piano and performs her song Perplexed in one of the university's libraries.
Vocabulary
Note: The words below can have multiple meanings. Here, our definitions reflect the meanings of the vocabulary in the song and podcast interview.
Braille a system of reading for blind people
chanting repeating the same words
off the wall unusual
bananas very silly
perplexed confused
worship the ground someone walks on love or admire someone a lot
straight up talking an honest conversation
reading between the subtext looking for meanings or emotions that are not literally in the words on a page or the words that somebody says (an adaptation of the expression reading between the lines)
Lyrics
Walking around with my head in the clouds Got my feet on the ground And no doubts about Me and you and what we've been through We can make it through anything 'Cause I love you But you say it back And I can't quite believe I'm seeing lies in your eyes Hidden behind the green I don't understand what's going on Can't help feeling that something is wrong
I'm lost with you, babe Can't keep saying we're great It's time we did some straight up talking I need some understanding Don't know where we're standing Don't know where we're at And I can't get no answers from you No, you know it's true Although I adore you And you say it too I'm reading between the subtext Got me perplexed
I can't believe I had anxiety That I couldn't love you as much as you love me But three months on didn't seem so long And yet our positions have completely swapped I worship the ground you walk on You worship the ground behind me Begging for you at your feet But you just like the sight of me down on my knees
I'm lost with you, babe Can't keep saying we're great It's time we did some straight up talking I need some understanding Don't know where we're standing Don't know where we're at And I can't get no answers from you No, you know it's true Although I adore you And you say it too I'm reading between the subtext Got me perplexed
You keep talking about them While I'm right there and I can't help but Know I'm not good enough for you You keep saying I'm worrying about nothing, nothing at all Why is it that when I'm with you I used to feel safe, now I feel small
I'm lost with you, babe Can't keep saying that we're great I'm lost with you, babe Can't keep nodding, smiling "Uh-huh, yeah, we're okay"
I'm lost with you, babe Can't keep saying we're great It's time we did some straight up talking I need some understanding Don't know where we're standing Don't know where we're at And I can't get no answers from you No, you know it's true And though, I adore you And you say it too I'm reading between the subtext Got me perplexed
