We Can Only Listen - Ruth Moody

Nothing’s working for me today

Maybe I’ll go for a walk in the rain

I’m soaking wet but my heart’s on fire

I can’t show it but I’m all desire

Fox in throat, hand in sleeve

We try and ask for what we need

Getting lost in all the one way streets

Keep on walking until we meet

I never know just what to say

I only remember when you walk away

Word in hand and rubber lips

We let it fall from our fingertips

We cannot choose the ones we love

When our hearts they speak so loudly

We can only listen

We can only listen

Would it be easier beneath the sun

Where apples fall and rivers run

And I’d be lying there next to you

In the silence it all comes through

And then we wouldn’t have to speak

All you’d hear is my heart-beat

We cannot choose the ones we love

When our hearts they speak so loudly

We can only listen

We can only listen