LANGUAGE OF THE SMILE
from COLLABORATING WITH THE INEVITABLE (WISE CHILDREN) by BABAL
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lyrics
Language Of The Smile (K Langley)
Words are vague things
Sad, real sounds fall continuously
Learn the language of the smile (x4)
Put the words in your pocket
Try to smile and say what you mean what you say
In the language I learned
Thousands and thousands of years ago
When there was no speech
And people spoke in tongues
But now the tongues are twisting and spitting
And twisting and going black
It's all there in the lines of the face
Every person you've touched, every lost moment
Every broken heart, every fear, every love, every mean act, every
Beautiful hour
How do the lips move, how do you do it
Is it easy, can it be learned, stretch out and see -
A distant reverberation on the smiling waters of paradise
Can you hear?
- the silent conversations of slumbering senses
Electricity pervades my frame - Electricity
The passionate fingers of deep-toned happiness
Play around your mouth
When there is no speech
Only dust on the tongue
And the eyes speak volumes
in frequent unequal bursts
An extravagance of precision
A dull shock
Then extreme quiescence
How do the lips move, how do you do it,
Is it easy, can it be learned?
Stretch out and see -
A distant reverberation on the smiling waters of paradise
Can you hear - the silent conversations of slumbering senses
- Electricity pervades my frame
Words are vague things
Sad, real sounds fall continuously
Learn the language of the smile (x4)
Put the words in your pocket
Try to smile and say what you mean what you say
In the language I learned
Thousands and thousands of years ago
When there was no speech
And people spoke in tongues
But now the tongues are twisting and spitting
And twisting and going black
It's all there in the lines of the face
Every person you've touched, every lost moment
Every broken heart, every fear, every love, every mean act, every
Beautiful hour
How do the lips move, how do you do it
Is it easy, can it be learned, stretch out and see -
A distant reverberation on the smiling waters of paradise
Can you hear?
- the silent conversations of slumbering senses
Electricity pervades my frame - Electricity
The passionate fingers of deep-toned happiness
Play around your mouth
When there is no speech
Only dust on the tongue
And the eyes speak volumes
in frequent unequal bursts
An extravagance of precision
A dull shock
Then extreme quiescence
How do the lips move, how do you do it,
Is it easy, can it be learned?
Stretch out and see -
A distant reverberation on the smiling waters of paradise
Can you hear - the silent conversations of slumbering senses
- Electricity pervades my frame
credits
from COLLABORATING WITH THE INEVITABLE (WISE CHILDREN),
released September 9, 1999
Written by Rob Williams and Karen Langley
Karen Langley - vocals
Rob Williams - guitar/synthesis
Written by Rob Williams and Karen Langley
Karen Langley - vocals
Rob Williams - guitar/synthesis
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BABAL England, UK
One speaks and a thousand misunderstand
where millions are silent and a thunderous applause erupts
where chatter
overwhelms humility and gossip destroys worlds
the tongues wag, the ears flap and the mind creates a wall
everything has been said but no one has understood
talking with conviction and concluding that knowledge is easy and effects a multitude of expanding smokescreens around truth
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