All This and Heaven Too

And the heart is hard to translate

It has a language of its own

It talks and tongues and quiet sighs

And prayers and proclamations

In the grand days of great men

And the smallest of gestures

In short shallow gasps

But with all my education I can't seem to commend it

And the words are all escaping me and coming back all damaged

And I would put them back in poetry if I only knew how

I can't seem to understand it

And I would give all this and heaven too

I would give it all if only for a moment

That I could just understand

The meaning of the word you say

'Cause I've been scrawling it forever

But it never makes sense to me at all

And it talks to me in tiptoes

And it sings to me inside

It cries out in the darkest night

And breaks in morning light

But with all my education I can't seem to commend it

And the words are all escaping and coming back all damaged

And I would put them back in poetry if I only knew how

I can't seem to understand it

And I would give all this and heaven too

I would give it all if only for a moment

That I could just understand

The meaning of the word you say

'Cause I've been scrawling it forever

But it never makes sense to me at all

And I would give all this and heaven too

I would give it all if only for a moment

That I could just understand

The meaning of the word you say

'Cause I've been scrawling it forever

But it never makes sense to me at all

No words or language

It doesn't deserve such treatment

And all my stumbling phrases never amounted

To anything worth this feeling

All this heaven never could describe such a feeling

As I'm having words were never so useful

So I was screaming out a language

That I never knew existed before