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By the time this gets to you the language will be nonsense
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Words all lose their meaning by the time they leave the tongue
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Some songs ain't about making this whole world understand you
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Words just speak for moments like the light speaks for the sun
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The sky opened up, the sun came inThe light made rainbows of our skin
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Our tongues got it on so beautifulWith kisses like it was dutiful
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A love embrace that wouldn't last - some words just come to fast
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By the time this gets to you the language will be nonsense
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I ain't gonna sit here tryin' to make up some excuse
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Spend a hundred bucks on what you used to get for 10 cents
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Find yourself a tongue and put your head to better useI don't know what you said
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Hey tongue find a headCaught you askin' the grass, why it grows
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Heard you askin' the rose, why it roseWhat's to reason in all of our desires?
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We make only ashes with these firesBut beautiful to watch them burn
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When will we all learn?So much I thieved and so much broken
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Where are the words that take two tongues to be spoken
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Where are the words that can't be repeated
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Sick of these people all talking night, trying to get by on yesterday's light
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World will do better when they all learnIt's beautiful to watch it turn
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| Bourbon Tabernacle Choir |
