Tongues Lyrics

Tongues lyrics

(dick/simmonds/usher/boult)



If you really knew how I felt,

You wouldn't need to be here asking

Those questions,

Those
irritating questions, moving in metaphors,

Speaking in tongues.



Your gunboat diplomacy,

You accuse me of heresy, of being
irreverent,

My opinions irrelevant, when I smile at your smiles,

When you're speaking in tongues.



As we move to a stalemate,

You say a contract's a contract

& this is unnegotiable,

I
question your morality, you question my reality

You're speaking in
tongues



We are speaking in tongues,

Am I deaf because I
cannot comprehend? 

Though I try I just cannot understand.



Your entrenched opinions,

On the border of arrogance,

Dug in
against the compromise.

A position indefensible, your actions
illogical

You're speaking in tongues



You swear
contradictions

Your tedious monologues, wielding authority,

Demanding subservience, demanding

I make your sense.

Demanding
speaking in tongues.



(dedicated to rupert perry, md emi uk)