Language Or the Kiss Lyrics

Lyric discussion by makebusy7 

Cover art for Language Or the Kiss lyrics by Indigo Girls

This song is about someone who is missing from a gathering (there was a table set for six, and five were there). The singer is standing in the kitchen contemplating and also listening to her guests in the other room (laughter like a language I once spoke with ease). The singer has accepted that their lover has a separate life but is afraid that they might end up alone if they let themselves go away from the relationship. They wrote a song for their lover, a love song, but now they are not so sure. (All I've sown was a song but maybe I was wrong).