Language Lyrics

Language lyrics

Suzanne Vega

  

  If language were liquid

  It would be rushing in

  Instead here we are

  In a silence more eloquent

  Than any word could ever be

  

  Words are too solid

  They don't move fast enough

  To catch the blur in the brain

  That flies by and is gone

  Gone

  Gone

  Gone

  

  I'd like to meet you

  In a timeless

  Placeless place

  Somewhere out of context

  And beyond all consequences

  

  Let's go back to the building

  (Words are too solid)

  On Little West Twelfth

  It is not far away

  (They don't move fast enough)

  And the river is there

  And the sun and the spaces

  Are all laying low

  (To catch the blur in the brain)

  And we'll sit in the silence

  (That flies by and is)

  That comes rushing in and is

  Gone (Gone)

  

  I won't use words again

  They don't mean what I meant

  They don't say what I said

  They're just the crust of the meaning

  With realms underneath

  Never touched

  Never stirred

  Never even moved through

  

  If language were liquid

  I

 Instead here we are

  In a silence more eloquent

  Than any word could ever be

  

  And it's gone

  Gone

  Gone

  And it's gone