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An Ode to Words

from Talking in Tongues by Tom Sharrock

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Oh I'd been collecting and filing away
And saving all the right things to say
For the time when I could use them
'Cause somedays I lose the power to speak
My voice is just too weak
It fails me when I really need it most
But now somehow all the words that should've been said
Have been written down and hidden away instead
And there's something that I've sadly come to know

Oh I can't keep track of all the things I wish I'd said
There's just not room enough inside my crowded head

Well most people listen just to reply
Instead of listening to understand why
You chose the words you'd chosen
Well this is the voice of a man who prefers to listen
Oh honestly you don't know what you've been missing
I've got half a mind to turn my back and go

'Cause I can't keep track of all the things I wish I'd said
There's just not room enough inside my crowded head
Just because words are free doesn't mean that they're worthless
Respect and revere them they exist for a purpose

Oh all those words that we whisper, those words that we shout
All those words that we fear to even spell out
All those words that we share, those words that we keep
All those words that your mother would not let you repeat
Oh all those words that we scream and those words that we sing
All those words that are said on one knee with a ring
All those words that we fake, that cause us to shake
All those words that torture us as we lie awake
And well the point that I making in my roundabout way
Is don't ever regret the things you don't say
Just because words are free doesn't mean that they're worthless
Don't use them and abuse them they exist for a purpose
So don't be afraid of making a scene
Just go tell your loved ones all that they mean
Because nobody knows which will be their last day
And frankly, that is all that I wanted to say.

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from Talking in Tongues, released September 9, 2016

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