The books and the cards - MN

Me and my baby we had a fight
Over crystal balls and tear stained eyes 
So I said I've got the feeling that we're heading back in time
I said so many things that I shouldn't have said
so I put my head in my hands, she went off to bed
But it seems I still can't get it off my mind

She went a hundred times same circle round
Which proved the fact that she was bound 
To stay the way she came into the world
It weren't the things she said that worried me
But the way she resigned in her misery
There's a different way to remain a little girl

[refr:]
It's the head and the heart
And the books and the cards
That have always been troubling me
There's no right and no wrong
In the simplest song
And I don't know why I bother to see
I don't know why I bother to see

Took up my guitar and played a tune
That I just composed that afternoon
But I couldn't give it the least of what it deserved
It was about the strength that we all have
To wake up from this state of death
But the meaning slipped away while singing the words

As if it hadn't ever been so close to me
It was me this time who had to see
I expected everyone to feel the same
When I put it down I felt so sure
Was I so naive and immature
I put away my guitar and stepped out into the rain

[refr]

Did she see so much that I haven't yet seen
Or is she now where I've way back been
And if I look for the answer she tells me that she knows
Though I feel back to zero maybe some day
I will sit and watch the children play
And I'll know that is how everybody grows...

[refr]