Attic Lights

Gabrielle

Album: Super De Luxe [2013]
Author: Kev Sherry - Colin McArdle - Noel O’Donnell - Tim Davidson - Jamie Houston © Elefant Publishing

Gabrielle, is it true, did you ever really do

All the things you wanted to?

Gabrielle did you stray, from your grey suburban bed

To the stories in your head?

 

Did you fall in love in Fiji?

Did you make the whole world care?

Did you say goodbye to Moscow?

See Australia from the air?

 

Did you punch your weight in good deeds?

Are there stories you can share?

Vicariously I show that I care

 

Did you see Africa in the morning?

Or did you stay right where you were?

Did your life become a pattern?

Or did you hear the whole world cheer?

 

Gabrielle is it true, that I didn’t notice you

On your hopefully life’s debut?

Gabrielle, when I dream

You have found a kind of peace

Though the world would treat you mean

 

Did your life span every ocean

In each corner of the land?

Was your heart met with devotion?

Did you live out all your plans?

 

In the days when we were younger

Only children in the dirt

And you were always scared of being hurt

 

Did you see, Africa in the morning?

Or did you stay right where you were?

Did your life become a pattern?

Or did you hear the whole world cheer?