Language

Song Language
Artist Suzanne Vega
Album Solitude Standing

Lyrics

[00:11.600] If language were liquid
[00:13.940] It would be rushing in
[00:20.170] Instead here we are
[00:22.180] In a silence more eloquent
[00:24.710] Than any word could ever be
[00:29.000] Words are too solid
[00:31.090] They don't move fast enough
[00:38.350] To catch the blur in the brain
[00:41.220] That flies by and is gone
[00:45.580] And is gone
[00:49.560] And is gone
[00:52.310] Gone
[00:54.460] Gone
[00:56.860] Gone
[00:58.810] And is gone
[01:04.660] I'd like to meet you
[01:07.420] In a timeless
[01:10.070] Placeless place
[01:14.150] Somewhere out of context
[01:17.510] And beyond all consequences
[01:21.510] Let's go back to the building(Words are too solid)
[01:24.160] On Little West Twelfth
[01:25.340] It is not far away(They don't move fast enough)
[01:27.410] And the river is there
[01:28.890] And the sun and the spaces
[01:32.110] Are all laying low(To catch the blur in the brain)
[01:34.310] And we'll sit in the silence(That flies by and is)
[01:36.530] That comes rushing in and is gone
[01:43.380] And is gone
[01:45.960] Gone
[01:50.120] Gone
[01:50.260] Gone
[01:52.170] And is gone
[02:27.960] I won't use words again
[02:30.800] They don't mean what I meant
[02:32.270] They don't say what I said
[02:36.060] They're just the crust of the meaning
[02:38.890] With realms underneath
[02:40.500] Never touched
[02:41.900] Never stirred
[02:43.220] Never even moved through
[02:45.090] If language were liquid
[02:47.840] It would be rushing in
[02:54.550] Instead here we are
[02:56.570] In a silence more eloquent
[02:59.030] Than any word could ever be
[03:06.660] And it's gone
[03:08.850] Gone
[03:11.140] Gone
[03:11.490] Gone
[03:11.500] Gone
[03:15.810] And it's gone
[03:20.110] And it's gone
[03:24.580] And it's gone
[03:28.580] And it's gone
[03:33.780] Gone
[03:37.980] Gone
[03:42.000] And it's gone...