Tongues - Fish

If you really knew how I felt

You wouldn’t need to be here asking

Those questions

Those irritating questions, moving in metaphors

Speaking in tongues

Your gunboat diplomacy

You accuse me of heresy, of being irreverent

My opinions irrelevant, when I smile at your smiles

When you’re speaking in tongues

As we move to a stalemate

You say a contract’s a contract

& this is unnegotiable

I question your morality, you question my reality

You’re speaking in tongues

We are speaking in tongues

Am I deaf because I cannot comprehend?

Though I try I just cannot understand

Your entrenched opinions

On the border of arrogance

Dug in against the compromise

A position indefensible, your actions illogical

You’re speaking in tongues

You swear contradictions

Your tedious monologues, wielding authority

Demanding subservience, demanding

I make your sense

Demanding speaking in tongues

(Dedicated to Rupert Perry, MD EMI UK)