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And the heart is hard to translate

 It has a language of its own

It talks in tongues of quiet sighs

 And prayers and proclamations

 In the grand days of great men

 In the smallest of gestures

In short, shallow gasps

But with all my education

I can’t seem to command it

And the words are all escaping

And coming back all damaged

And I would put them back in poetry

If I only knew how

I can’t seem to understand it

 And I would give all this and heaven too

 I would give it all if only for a moment

 That I could just understand the meaning of the word, you see

 ‘Cause I’ve been scrawling it forever

 But it never makes sense to me at all

 And it talks to me, it tip-toes

 And it sinks to the inside

It cries out in the darkest night

 And breaks in the morning light

But with all my education

I can’t seem to command it

And the words are all escaping

And coming back all damaged

And I would put them back in poetry

If I only knew how

I can’t seem to understand it

 And I would give all this and heaven too

 I would give it all if only for a moment

 That I could just understand the meaning of the word, you see

 ‘Cause I’ve been scrawling it forever

 But it never makes sense to me at all

Mmmmmm, ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Oh, oh-oh-oh

 Oh-oh, Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh

 And I would give all this and heaven too

 I would give it all if only for a moment

 That I could just understand the meaning of the word, you see

 ‘Cause I’ve been scrawling it forever

 But it never makes sense to me at all

No words

 Our language doesn’t deserve such treatment

 And all my stumbling phrases never amounted

 To anything worth this feeling

All this and Heaven

 Never could describe such a feeling as I feel it

Words were never so useful

 So I was screaming out a language that I

Never knew existed before