Words

by Ellis Paul - The Speed of Trees
(click title for his website)

Words are better when they're written down
Fall on the page with no sound
And if you let them sit awhile,
Give them time and distance.
You won't hear the rattle in the voice
That gives a fool away without choice
Time is all you have tonight
Take the time and get this right

Your eyes make me humble,
I fall down at your feet.
Pick me up if I stumble
Over words I can not speak.

So I'm fighting an empty page
For the words I've got to say
Sun brings another day and here I am still reaching
I hear the sigh of a morning train
I watch it waking you up again
Things I can't explain
But here I am still speaking.

Your eyes make me humble,
See I fall down at your feet.
Pick me up if I stumble
Over words I can not speak.
I just can't speak.

And you say if you doubted me,
You would take all that was yours and just go.
So take what you've given me,
If these words don't voice what this heart just knows.

Your eyes make me humble,
See I fall down at your feet.
Pick me up if I stumble
Over words I can not speak.
I just can't speak.
Speak. Speak. Speak.
I just can't speak.