And the heart is hard to translate, it has a language of its own It talks in tongues and courtesies and prayers and proclamations In the grand deeds of great men and the smallest of gestures In short, shallow gasps But with all my education, I can't seem to command it And the words are not escaping, they're 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 a word you see Cause I've been sprawling here forever but it never makes sense to me ever And it talks to me in tiptoes and it sings to me inside It cries out in the darkest night and it breaks in the morning light But with all my education, I can't seem to command it And the words are not escaping, they're 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 a word you see Cause I've been sprawling here forever but it never makes sense to me ever 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 a word you see Cause I've been sprawling here forever but it never makes sense to me at all No words, poor language It doesn't deserve such treatment And all my stumbling phrases never amounted to anything Worthless feeling, all this heaven Never could describe such a feeling as I'm here And words were never so useful So I was screaming out a lifeless that I never knew existed before © transcript Emily Beynon