Careful Whisper

[Verse 1]
I love you to the end of days, but I can’t show
What it is I’m feeling cos you don’t know
How to turn your heart inside out
How to turn the sides of your mouth
How to turn back up what fell down
How to show you want me around

[Chorus 1]
So I learn to hold my breath -
How to take a no when I wanted yes
And I learn how to survive -
Not to close my heart, just to close my eyes
And I learn how to be quiet -
When to use my voice, when to hide it
When to shout for love and when to resist her
When to keep my dreams to a careful whisper

[Verse 2]
I love you to the end of time for all your apologies
But time flows like a river, and history repeats
And I turn myself inside out
Just to keep my world turning round
And I burn most all of me down
Till the words fall short in my mouth

[Chorus 3]
So I learn to hold my breath -
How to take a no when I wanted yes
And I learn how to survive -
Not to close my heart, just to close my eyes
And I learn how to be quiet -
When to use my voice, when to hide it
When to shout for love and when to resist her
When to keep my dreams to a careful whisper

Ohhhh

Time flows like a river and history repeats
Oh, wherever it is you’re sailing to it’s far away from me

[Chorus 3]
So I learn to hold my breath -
How to take a no when I wanted yes
And I learn how to survive -
Not to close my heart, just to close my eyes
And I learn how to be quiet -
When to use my voice, when to hide it
When to shout for love and when to resist her
When to keep my dreams to a careful whisper