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 - Composer:
 - Michael Franti
 
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Spearhead - Speaking Of Tongues lyrics
You don't have to be so scared to share what's inside
 'Cause you're daddy's little superstar
 And you're mama's little butterfly, fly high
 A strange strange litany of verses and reverses
 Adlibs and rehearses, clouds burst and words cursed
 An argument breaks out
 It's one we've all heard before, it's boring
 Had us all snoring from the first line
 One after another chimed in perfect time
 Tired rehashes of petty cashes and mismatches
 You shoulda coulda's and why didn't you do this
 Crippling snippets aimed at the heart to inflame and impart blame
 Framed like Mumia, verbal diarrhea
 Spasms creating chasms between the souls of two or two billion
 Nations torn apart, station to station damnation
 With much deliberation and very little consideration
 To the return on the damage from the altercation
 Collateral condemnation
 Then denyin' like colorization of an old black and white
 Create a revision of the recent last night
 The fight that started with two words, I'm right
 You don't have to be so scared to share what's inside
 'Cause you're daddy's little superstar
 And you're mama's little butterfly, fly high
 But of course the fight ends with no resolution
 Merely a vow for retribution, substitution
 Execution, electrocution, ruthless, toothless and truthless
 Mumbling through page after page of excuses
 Abuses of the gift of the Gab, Gabriel the trumpeter
 Bestowed upon us a voice with a choice
 And a tongue kept moist by years of salivating
 For oysters, pearls and aphrodisiacs
 Locked in an ugly shell, always too chewy and gooey
 So they get swallowed whole
 But a tongue is so much more than a vehicle for greedSpearhead - Speaking Of Tongues - http://motolyrics.com/spearhead/speaking-of-tongues-lyrics.html
 With a disciple I feed
 A tongue is for washing fur or for licking wounds
 Or welcoming newcomers into a room
 Or cleansing those fresh from the womb
 Without a tongue there would be no croons
 Swoons, June's under the moon
 No bees pollinating no flowers in bloom
 No recitation of words at the foot of a tomb
 Or wills read aloud of the family heirlooms
 You probably couldn't even blow up a balloon
 And that would be a shame because exhales the name of the game
 Exhale from the heart, not from the lungs
 Speak from the heart, not from the tongue
 You don't have to be so scared to share what's inside
 'Cause you're daddy's little superstar
 And you're mama's little butterfly, fly high
 Listening is understanding and finding compassion
 Love is the action of soul satisfaction
 A tongue can make wishes and also fine kisses
 Taste a sweet cake and also cast disses
 But nothing compares to the voice from within
 Without it we might just be mannequins
 Up to no darn good shenanigans
 Learn to be skillful movers of the stones
 That block the heart and turn humans to clones
 Learn to forgive, set free the bones
 Touch with your flesh, take off the rubber gloves
 Love like your life depends on it because it does
 You don't have to be so scared to share what's inside
 'Cause you're daddy's little superstar
 And you're mama's little butterfly, fly high
 You don't have to be so scared to share what's inside
 'Cause you're daddy's little superstar
 And you're mama's little butterfly, fly high, flying high, flying high









