Everything I Couldn't Say Is on Track Nine

Lyrics

I never could say it across the room
So I sat with my scissors and my tape
Cut the words from the songs on the radio
And made them into something I could shape

The first one's for the way you laugh at nothing
The second's for the way you stir your tea
The fifth is for the time you held my coat
And never made a speech of it to me

Everything I couldn't say is on track nine
Play it in the evening when the lamps are low
Every line a letter in a borrowed voice
Everything I couldn't say, now you know

I wrapped it up in paper from the drawer
Tied it with a bit of garden string
I left it on your doorstep in the dusk
And ran back home without a thing

The porch light on, the curtain moved a little
I heard a click, a hiss, a gentle start
And somewhere down the lane, a window opened
And music reached the quiet of my heart

Everything I couldn't say is on track nine
Play it in the evening when the lamps are low
Every line a letter in a borrowed voice
Everything I couldn't say, now you know

And if you hum along I'll know you listened
And if you don't, I'll know you heard it still
I'll sit here by the window with the dusk
And wait for you the way the evening will

Everything I couldn't say is on track nine
Play it in the evening when the lamps are low
Every line a letter in a borrowed voice
Everything I couldn't say, now you know

Track nine
Now you know