A word wears seven faces And every face is true A thousand different meanings Passing through the same blue The alphabet is melting The letters lose their place A language without borders A voice without a face And round and round the meaning goes Nobody knows where it began Before the world was given names The world was what it was Words wash away But the sound comes through I lose what you say I don’t lose you Words wash away And the meaning moves I lose what you say I don’t lose you The silence speaks in circles The circles speak in tongues A thousand years of talking And nothing’s really sung A question has no colour An answer has no weight A second lasts forever When forever learns to wait The vowels bend, the meanings break A different world in every phrase And underneath the things we say The same vibration stays Words wash away But the sound comes through I lose what you say I don’t lose you The words rearrange The sound stays true I lose what you say I don’t lose you Take away the alphabet Take away the name Let a thousand tongues forget What they were trying to explain No right or wrong in resonance No language in a wave Only air becoming sound Before there’s something left to say Words wash away But the sound comes through I lose what you say I don’t lose you
