Native Tongue

Album: Native Tongue (2019)
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  • Sing to me, baby, in your native tongue
    Sing the words of the wise and the young
    Show me the place where your words come from
    Love is the language, love is your native tongue

    Feel your heartbeat bang the drum
    Open up your eyes and fill your lungs
    The same word from where the stars are flung
    Love is the language, love is your native tongue

    My heart is a beating drum
    My head in oblivion
    My soul, such a long way from
    My lips, my lungs, my native tongue

    My friend, where did we go wrong?
    My Lord, we forgot our sound
    My soul, such a long way from
    My lips, my lungs, my native tongue

    (Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh)
    (My native tongue)
    (Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh)
    (My native tongue)

    Sing it to me, whisper into my ear
    Accuser's voices start to disappear
    In the wind, in the tongues of the flame
    In my soul, in my one true name, oh

    Back before we learned the words to start a fight
    Back before they told us that the haters were right
    He spoke the truth, "let there be" and there was
    Love is the language, love is your native tongue

    My heart is a beating drum
    My head in oblivion
    My soul, such a long way from
    My lips, my lungs, my native tongue

    My friend, where did we go wrong?
    My Lord, we forgot our sound
    My soul, such a long way from
    My lips, my lungs, my native tongue

    So sing it loud, get loud, get
    Louder than the voices in the crowd, yeah
    Even when they tried to drown you out, eh
    Your lips, your lungs, your native tongue

    So sing it out, get loud, get
    Louder than the darkness and the doubts, eh
    Louder than the curses and the shouts, yeah
    Your lips, your lungs, your native tongue

    (Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh)
    (Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh)

    My heart is a beating drum
    My head in oblivion
    My soul, such a long way from
    My lips, my lungs, my native tongue

    My friend, where did we go wrong?
    My Lord, we forgot our sound
    My soul, such a long way from
    My lips, my lungs, my native tongue

    (Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh)
    (My native tongue)
    (Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh)

    I want the world to sing in her native tongue
    To sing it like when we were young
    Back before the pendulum had swung to the shadows

    I want the world to sing in her native tongue
    Maybe we could learn to sing along
    To find a way to use our lungs for love and not the shadows

    I want the world to sing in her native tongue
    To sing it like when we were young
    Back before the pendulum had swung to the shadows

    I want the world to sing in her native tongue
    Maybe we could learn to sing along
    To find a way to use our lungs for love and not the shadows Writer/s: Brent Kutzle, Jonathan Mark Foreman, Timothy David Foreman
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Downtown Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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