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When I wake up I'm speaking slow.
When I get drunk I'm speaking more.
Get too drunk & I don't speak at all.
Get too close to you & I don't know what to say.
The only time I make sense is when I'm talking in my sleep.
But there's nobody around to write it down,
So it gets hard to store my book in pillows.
The only time you made sense was when I was talking too.
But we had to take turns, one at a time.
& when it comes to mine I have no idea what to say.
When I'm talking to you.
What to say when I'm standing there talking to you.
Words that don't relate to one another flowing off our tongues.
Fragments, fleeting thoughts get strung together one by one by one.
Things we can't relay to one another.
Smoke goes in my lungs.
I get more from a look than from people when they've spoke or yelled or sung.
People talk
People talk
People talk, but they don't know what to say.
What do you say?
When it comes to you, you look good in your sleep (what do you say?)
When it comes to you, you look good in a heap of images stacked so... electronically.
(what do you say?)
When it comes to you you look to keep no matter what
People talk.
People walk.
People mock.
But they don't know what to say.
What to say when I'm talking to you.
What to say when I'm standing there talking to you.
What to say...
What to say...
What to say now that I'm standing here talking to you.
When I get drunk I'm speaking more.
Get too drunk & I don't speak at all.
Get too close to you & I don't know what to say.
The only time I make sense is when I'm talking in my sleep.
But there's nobody around to write it down,
So it gets hard to store my book in pillows.
The only time you made sense was when I was talking too.
But we had to take turns, one at a time.
& when it comes to mine I have no idea what to say.
What to say when I'm standing there talking to you.
Fragments, fleeting thoughts get strung together one by one by one.
Things we can't relay to one another.
Smoke goes in my lungs.
I get more from a look than from people when they've spoke or yelled or sung.
People talk
People talk, but they don't know what to say.
When it comes to you, you look good in a heap of images stacked so... electronically.
(what do you say?)
When it comes to you you look to keep no matter what
People walk.
People mock.
But they don't know what to say.
What to say when I'm standing there talking to you.
What to say...
What to say...
What to say now that I'm standing here talking to you.
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Submitted by
tlow87 On Jun 02, 2010
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I think it's:
'But there's nobody 'round to write it down So it gets lost on my books and pillows'
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'And when it comes to mine, I have no idea What to say, when I'm talking to you'
I love this song.
corrected. all the correct lyrics to this album here: http://bornruffians.com/lyrics/say-it.html
This song is SO FUCKING GOOOOOOOOD.
"People talk, but they don't know what to say."
true, so true
its 100% definitely not: "So it gets lost on my books and pillows"
you can clearly understand him in the studio version of the song saying: "So it gets hard to store my books in pillows"
also it just makes more sense