Electric Earl How Many Words? Lyrics

How Many Words? Lyrics

I.  if you'd melt that wall of ice around you,

                you'd have
tears enough to fill a lake

                that empties and becomes an
empty canyon.

                I'd try to fill it up for your own sake.

                   but how many words would it take?

                  
(how many words would it take?)

                   I'd try to fill it up
for your own sake.

                   (how many words would it take?)



           II.  I'd give you artificial inspiration,

          
     and heart-to-heart resuscitation, too.

                I'd pull the
puppet strings of your sleepwalk.

                but if the only shade
of light is blue,

                   how could I make a rainbow out of
you?

                   (how could I make a rainbow out of you?)

  
                if the only shade of light is blue.

                  
(how could I make a rainbow out of you?)

                      and how
many words will it take?

                      (how many words would it
take?)

                      I'd try to build you up for your own
sake.

                      (how many words would it take?)



    CHORUS A:  how can I make you breathe today?

                do I
say,

                inhale-exhale-inhale-exhale,

               
night and day?

                inhale-exhale-inhale,

              
 until I'm old and grey?



          III.  how soon the sun is
setting on this old day.

                poison ivy dying everywhere.

                let's turn around and face the other way now.

        
       it's summer in the other hemisphere.

                and soon the
spinning earth will take us there.

                (soon the spinning
earth will take us the