Belle & Sebastian Lyrics
"Allie"

Allie, what would you do?
When there's bombs in the middle east
You want to hurt yourself
When there's knives in the city streets
You want to end yourself
When there's fun in your mother's house
You want to cry yourself to sleep

Allie, what will you do with your fears
Because they're adding one by one?
And your mountains are obscured behind the sun
And the person that you could be is crumbling into dust

You're in a mess, cause you thought
You'd be someone else
But the tricks in your head are a lie
Yeah the tricks in your head are a lie
The tricks in your head are a
Tricks in your head are a lie

Allie, hand on your head
And a prayer from the soon-to-be-closing library
If you could look from here, you would surely see
There's a softness in your heart
There's a poetry to come

You bought that gun cause you thought
You'd be someone else
But the tricks in your head are a lie
Yeah the tricks in your head are a lie
The tricks in your head are a
Tricks in your head are a lie

So you made a list of all your heroes
And you thought about what they went through
Much harder much darker than
Anything that happened to you

Allie, what would you do?
When your seven year plan happens to someone else
Most of the people in your life you will happily shelf
When the day follows night
You are truly on your own

You're in this place, cause you thought
You'd be someone else
But the tricks in your head are a lie
Yeah the tricks in your head are a lie
The tricks in your head are a
Tricks in your head are a lie