All This And Heaven Too

And the heart is hard to translate

It has a language of its own

It talks in tongues of quiet sighs

And prayers and proclamations

In the grand days of great men

In the smallest of gestures

In short, shallow gasps


But with all my education

I can?t seem to command 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 see

Cause I?ve been scrawling it forever

But it never makes sense to me at all


And it talks to me, it tip-toes

And it sinks to the inside


It cries out in the darkest night

And breaks in the morning light


But with all my education

I can?t seem to command 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 see

Cause I?ve been scrawling it forever

But it never makes sense to me at all


Mmmmmm, ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Oh, oh-oh-oh

Oh-oh, Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh


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 see

Cause I?ve been scrawling it forever

But it never makes sense to me at all


No words

Our language doesn?t deserve such treatment

And all my stumbling phrases never amounted

To anything worth this feeling

All this and Heaven

Never could describe such a feeling as I feel it


Words were never so useful

So I was screaming out a language that I

Never knew existed before