[lyrics by Andrew Buller, tune by suno.com - created in Canterbury, Kent - 02/11/24] [short instrumental] tongue (tongue) tongue (tongue) tame the tongue (tame your tongue) [short instrumental] I adore language our shared mother tongue grown from our same shared mother earth bursting with life budding and blooming with meaning on meaning (meaning on meaning) in branches that even the writer's not seen in the flowers the mighty powers of nectar to draw in the crowd bee-loud o the fruits, the beautiful billowing fruits enriching and ripening reading and widening the arms we are armed we are bound to taste [short instrumental] [chorus] mother (mother) mother tongue I love you (I love you) please don't speak wrong (please don't speak wrong) with your mother (mother) mother tongue [short instrumental] I adore language our shared mother's tongue grown from our same shared mother's earth born listening and learning before we could walk the joy of the tongue twisting and tying and trying to talk gurgles and riddles and rhymes and rhythms and giggles it wriggles toward sounds of gooos and gaaas and ooos and aaas and nos that it knows too soon [short instrumental] [chorus] mother (mother) mother tongue I love you (I love you) please don't speak wrong (please don't speak wrong) with your mother (mother) mother tongue [short instrumental] I adore language our shared mother tongue grown from our same shared mother earth I hear crying her sons and daughters found lying what began as an innocent game a spark that leapt, formed a flame found fortune and danced with its fame before the fall out and inevitable blame [short instrumental] [chorus] mother (mother) mother tongue I love you (I love you) please don't speak wrong (please don't speak wrong) with your mother (mother) mother tongue [short instrumental] for the tongue is a restless beast found licking within the deceased bound, I pray, be released back to our mother tongue of our waiting mother earth who has wanted to love us since birth in the beginning was the word it's the language of future - I've heard the language of future I've heard