Different Languages - Holly Palmer

So I’m trying to learn Italian

And you’re lying next to me

And the neighbor dog is howling

Well, it was really satisfying not to see you last night

Well, you had all sixteen excuses lined up in a row

Like blanks on the belt of a GI Joe

It’s a really mystifying all this trying and trying

And then you asked if I was coming out

I said no and you said that’s okay

I just wanted to know, then you said

I guess I’ll see you later on, on the edge of the bed

And I say rock-a-bye

My sweet upon your broken bow

It’s alright, we’re speaking in

Different languages now, alright

Now the mockingbirds are singing

They’re bringing up the sun and I’m thinking

Maybe that’s what’s cool about it

We’ve been trying to hold each other like a conversation

You said that maybe I wasn’t looking

But I recognize the sounds just like you

But I can’t form the words or they’re too hard to spell

Your head is buried in the dictionary

And I say rock-a-bye

My sweet upon your broken bow

It’s alright, we’re speaking in

Different languages now

Smoothen your hair back

From your drunken brow, oh baby

It’s alright, we’re speaking in

Different languages now, alright

Well, all I know is that a couple of days go by

And I can’t even read your lips, no, no

Things were fine the other day

And I said, well baby if you knew why

I bet you wouldn’t feel this way

And you said, one hand on your heart

One hand on my head

Don’t fall off the edge of the bed, sugar

And we just laughed

And I say rock-a-bye

My sweet upon your broken bow

It’s alright, we’re speaking in

Different languages now

Smoothen your hair back

From your drunken brow

It’s alright, we’re speaking in

Different languages any how, alright

Yeah

Alright