Verse 1EC#mE
And the heart is hard to translate
A
It has a language of its own
EC#mE
It talks in tongues of quiet sighs
AE
And prayers and proclamations
C#mE
In the grand days of great men
AE
In the smallest of gestures
C#mEA
In short, shallow gasps
Pre-ChorusDm
But with all my education
Em
I can’t seem to command it
F
And the words are all escaping
G
And coming back all damaged
Dm
And I would put them back in poetry
Em
If I only knew how
FG
I can’t seem to understand it
ChorusCAm
And I would give all this and heaven too
FDm
I would give it all if only for a moment
GCAm
That I could just understand the meaning of the word, you see
F
‘Cause I’ve been scrawling it forever
DmGE
But it never makes sense to me at all
Verse 2C#mE
And it talks to me, it tip-toes
A
And it sinks to the inside
EC#mE
It cries out in the darkest night
A
And breaks in the morning light
Pre-ChorusDm
But with all my education
Em
I can’t seem to command it
F
And the words are all escaping
G
And coming back all damaged
Dm
And I would put them back in poetry
Em
If I only knew how
FG
I can’t seem to understand it
ChorusCAm
And I would give all this and heaven too
FDm
I would give it all if only for a moment
GCAm
That I could just understand the meaning of the word, you see
F
‘Cause I’ve been scrawling it forever
DmGCmaj7
But it never makes sense to me at all
BridgeCAm
Mmmmmm, ooh-ooh
CDm
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
CAm
Oh, oh-oh-oh
CDmG
Oh-oh, Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh
ChorusCAm
And I would give all this and heaven too
FDm
I would give it all if only for a moment
GCAm
That I could just understand the meaning of the word, you see
F
‘Cause I’ve been scrawling it forever
DmG
But it never makes sense to me at all
InstrumentalCAmFOutroDmGC
Our language doesn’t deserve such treatment
AmF
And all my stumbling phrases never amounted
DmG
To anything worth this feeling
CAm
All this and Heaven
FDmG
Never could describe such a feeling as I feel it
CAm
Words were never so useful
F
So I was screaming out a language that I
DmGC
Never knew existed before
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