• You wonder why I speak slowly.
    I'm trying not to waste your time,
    For words unheard have no meaning
    And poems unread will have no rhyme.

    (Chorus)
    Through our lips; they couldn't speak
    For the secrets they would keep
    And the world would shutter at your sigh
    In the frozen depths of sin
    where the words were diving in
    Should we open up our ears or let them die
    We will let them die


    You wonder why I tread softly
    I wonder why I buy time
    If I could only write down
    What it is that I see in your eyes

    (Chorus)

    I wrote you a letter
    It spilled out my heart in ink
    I hope that every verb pronounces
    An image that you would love to see

    Of rivers in the mountains
    Of winds across the sea
    I find it, beat and torn amongst the letters that came before
    You take my hand and say to me

    (Chorus)