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 Oh, I wish that you would call

 We have not spoken since last fall

 That smoky conversation's coming home

Do I just read between your lines

 Yeah it could be this winter wine

 So sweet upon my tongue tonight

 It recalls your tender eyes

 And I need more than a whisper

 So much more than a whisper

 It takes more than a whisper

 To wake this weary fool

 Oh give me more than a whisper

 If you're saying I love you

 Cuz it's the whispers that I've never understood

And it's snowing up in the northlands

 I read your warm words from the plains

 While the poets say that I should never

 Be thinking of you this way

They say that I misread your lines

 Because I've been lonely all my life

 And I'd be reaching for some silver

 And leave my heart out in the fire

 And I need more than a whisper

 So much more than a whisper

 It takes more than a whisper

 To wake this weary fool

 Oh give me more than a whisper

 If you're saying I love you

 Cuz it's the whispers that I've never understood

 Well I will drink my winter wine

 When I get home I'll change my life

 I'll only whisper that I love you

 In those smoky bars at night

And though the poets say I'm lonely

 There's still this woman here inside

 And I've never been a fool

 When my heart was on the line

 Cuz I need more than a whisper

 So much more than a whisper

 It takes more than a whisper

 To wake this weary fool

 Oh give me more than a whisper

 If you're saying I love you

 Cuz it's the whispers that I've never understood