E         C#m                E     
  And the heart is hard to translate
          A                  E
It has a language of its own
      C#m               E
It talks in tongues and quiet sighs
     A                 E
And prayers and proclamations
        C#m             E
In the grand deeds of great men
         A          E
In the smallest of gestures
C#m                E      A
In short, shallow gasps

[Pre-Chorus]
Dm                    Em         
  But with all my education
                          F
I can’t seem to command it
                        G
And the words are all escaping
                        Dm
And coming back all damaged
                             Em
And I would put them back in poetry
                 F
If I only knew how
                      G
I can’t seem to understand it

[Chorus]
                 C             Am                     
And I would give all this and heaven too
         F                        Dm                 
I would give it all if only for a moment
        G               C                        Am                             
That I could just understand the meaning of the word you see
                   F               
‘Cause I’ve been scrawling it forever 
       Dm           G               E
But it never makes sense to me at all

[Verse 2]
        C#m                  E
And it talks to me, it tip-toes
        A                 E
And it sings to me inside
        C#m                E
It cries out in the darkest night
     A                     Dm
And breaks in the morning light

[Pre-Chorus]
Dm                  Em
But with all my education
                         F
I can’t seem to command it
                          G
And the words are all escaping
                        Dm
And coming back all damaged
                              Em
And I would put them back in poetry
                 F
If I only knew how
                       G
I can’t seem to understand it

[Chorus]
                 C             Am                     
And I would give all this and heaven too
         F                        Dm                 
I would give it all if only for a moment
        G                C                       Am                            
That I could just understand the meaning of the word you see
                   F               
‘Cause I’ve been scrawling it forever 
        Dm          G            Cmaj7
But it never makes sense to me at all

[Bridge]
C   Am
Mmmmmm, ooh-ooh
C               Dm
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
C         Am
Oh, oh-oh-oh
       C           Dm    G
Oh-oh, Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh-oh

[Chorus]
                  C            Am
And I would give all this and heaven too
         F                         Dm
I would give it all if only for a moment
        G                C                       Am                    
That I could just understand the meaning of the word you see
                    F                
‘Cause I’ve been scrawling it forever 
       Dm            G            C                               
But it never makes sense to me at all

[Outro]

C Am    F
No words
         Dm          G                   C
Poor language, it doesn’t deserve such treatment
            Am                        F
And all my stumbling phrases never amounted
              Dm    G     C
To anything worth this feeling
             Am
All this and Heaven
 F                           Dm           G
Never could describe such a feeling as I feel and
C                   Am
Words were never so useful
           F                                 
So I was screaming out a language that I
Dm           G            C
Never knew existed before