What Will Lily Do?

The station on the radio is rolling out the sound

Over all the walls down into Lily’s town

Sounds from the past when she feels like looking back

Songs for right now as she’s falling through the crack

Of a thin and shiny lie,

In her youth she could not die

What will Lily do

What story will she tell

When she faces all the people

Who say they know her well

Oh what will Lily do

Her lover left a message he'd call her back that night

Her instincts were confused should she flee or fight

With one hand on her body the other on her soul

She spent her day moving to the songs of rock n’ roll.

To voices full of color

In a place no one would bother

What will Lily do

What story will she tell

When she faces all the people

Who say they know her well

Oh what will Lily do

Now she’s waiting slowly by the telephone

Hoping that the call coming to her home

Will bring her more than hope she’d had enough of that

Wherever she is going, she won’t be going back

Love had brought her to this night

Only love could make it right.

What will Lily do

What story will she tell

When she faces all the people

Who say they know her well

Oh what will Lily do

Oh what’s the girl to do

©  Armell