Soft, I will say it softly

Not another time when you're watching me

And wait 'til I'm on the straight and narrow right way home

Take your line from a child

Make him say it again

And I, I may live a long life

But time, it goes quicker when we both keep quiet

And no, no more ways to say goodbye

Take the words off my chest, they are all I have left

And I may be thoughtless

When you put your arms around me, are they wider than they feel?

And I am a voice without a reason

I like to feel I'm needed, but I think I want to leave

And shaped, shaped just like a shell boy

I open, open up and you help yourself

Away, away from anybody else

One last breath to the sail

I'll step under the swell for you

My love learned my mother tongue

And I didn't even mind when he got the word for 'sorry' wrong

And listening, I caught the ends of songs I left unsung

I wrote another line for you, but all my words were gone

And I may be thoughtless

When you name the things you love, I am the spaces in-between

And I am a voice without a reason

You'd like to hear an answer, but I think I want to leave

And if, if I live a long life

I'll turn myself around

And I'll make it all alright