Language / 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
    
on little west twelfth
    
and the river is there
and the sun and the spaces
are all laying low
    
and we'll sit in the silence
    
that comes rushing in and is
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 it would be rushing in
instead here we are in a silence more eloquent
than any word could ever be

and it's gone gone
and it's gone

 

 

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