Language Or The Kiss

I don't know if it was real or in a dream

Lately waking up i'm not sure where i've been

There was a table set for six and five were there

I stood outside and kept my eyes upon that empty chair

And there was steam on the windows from the kitchen

Laughter like a language i once spoke with ease

But i'm made mute by the virtue of decision

And i choose most of your life goes on without me

Oh the fear i've known

That i might reap the praise of strangers

And end up on my own

All i've sown was a song but maybe i was wrong



I said to you the one gift which i'd adore

The package of the next 10 years unfolding

But you told me if i had my way i'd be bored

Right then i knew i loved you best born of your scolding

When we last talked we were lying on our backs

Looking at the sky through the ceiling

I used to lie like that alone out on the driveway

Trying to read the greek upon the stars

The alphabet of feeling

Oh i knew back then

It was a calling that said if joy then pain

The sound of the voice these years later

Is still the same



I am alone in a hotel room tonight

I squeeze the sky out but there's not a star appears

Begin my studies with this paper and this pencil

And i'm working through the grammar of my fears

Oh mercy what i won't give

To have the things that mean the most

Not to mean the things i miss

Unforgiving the choice still is

The language or the kiss




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