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Verse              Standing naked at the bottom of the stairs

                        Calling to someone who I knew was not there

                        Invisible to no one except me

                        Coming face to face with all that I can’t see

Chorus           I talk and you talk

                        Never did we have the talk

                        Only in our silence did we talk

Verse              Crushed into silence by my own desire

                        Unable to make sense of my own fire

                        I see now that I did not know who I was

                        I understand the pain that absence caused

Chorus           I talk and you talk

                        Never did we have the talk

                        Only in our silence did we talk

Bridge            There were some moments I was in too deep

                        But there were no promises I did not keep

Verse              I see the memory around your eyes

                        My interest in your words is my disguise

                        To speak about it now would seem amiss

                        Yet silence seems the height of cowardice

Chorus           I talk and you talk

                        Never did we have the talk

                        Only in our silence did we talk

Chorus           I talk and you talk

                        Never did we have the talk

                        Only in our silence did we talk

Words & Music © 2018 Martha Groves Perry