INDIGO GIRLS - Language Or The Kiss lyrics

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I don't know if it was real or in a dream<br>Lately waking up I'm not sure where I've been<br>There was a table set for six and five were there<br>I stood outside and kept my eyes upon that empty chair<br>And there was steam on the windows from the kitchen<br>Laughter like a language I once spoke with ease<br>But I'm made mute by the virtue of decision<br>And I choose most of your life goes on without me<br>Oh the fear I've known<br>That I might reap the praise of strangers<br>And end up on my own<br>All I've sown was a song but maybe I was wrong<br><br>I said to you the one gift which I'd adore<br>The package of the next 10 years unfolding<br>But you told me if I had my way I'd be bored<br>Right then I knew I loved you best born of your scolding<br>When we last talked we were lying on our backs<br>Looking at the sky through the ceiling<br>I used to lie like that alone out on the driveway<br>Trying to read the greek upon the stars<br>The alphabet of feeling<br>Oh I knew back then<br>It was a calling that said if joy then pain<br>The sound of the voice these years later<br>Is still the same<br><br>I am alone in a hotel room tonight<br>I squeeze the sky out but there's not a star appears<br>Begin my studies with this paper and this pencil<br>And I'm working through the grammar of my fears<br>Oh mercy what I won't give<br>To have the things that mean the most<br>Not to mean the things I miss<br>Unforgiving the choice still is<br>The language or the kiss