The Language Of Love

Dan Fogelberg

She says no

When she means yes

And what she wants, you know that I can't guess

When we want more, you know we ask for less

Such is the language of love....



I say leave

When I mean stay

But she don't see and so she moves away

What we really want, you know we rarely say

Such is the language of love



It's tooth for tooth & eye for eye

We hide our hearts & then we won't say why

It's truth for truth & lie for lie

Such is the language of love



One cries foul

And will not speak

The other claims a little victory

And all the time

You know we fail to see

This is the language of love



When a love begins to wander

No one ever knows

But we feel it deep inside us

Long before it shows

Long before it shows



We hem & haw

We balk & bluff

Our words don't ever seem to say enough

But a simple smile

A tender touch

Speaks the true language of love



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