Mother Tongue Lyrics

Came on like a fever

A compulsion to retrace

Maybe it’s this city

Forever married to her face

For me

Beset by phantoms

Footprints that I made

With no one left here

To commune with

No one left

Who knows my name

Come now

I long to fill my lungs

And somehow

Speak once more

In the mother tongue

Cause I’ve burned bridges

That didn’t lead to what I need

And god knows

I’ve been burned too

By those who want

No part of me

I’m searching for the spirit

I had when we were starting out

When I took poems

From her kisses

Oh and I poured them

In the concrete

Of this city’s sacred ground

Will you come now

I long fill my lungs

And somehow

Remind me of

The mother tongue

Another time, a different way

It probably all worked out

But though it pains me to say

Guess it still all worked out

Okay

Don’t know what I’m trying

To say now

Cause I’m not asking

For your heart

I was just reminded

How I loved you

Though we were meant

To be apart

And all I hope

All I want

You find someone

Who speaks to you

Sings to you

In the mother tongue

Oh the mother tongue

The fever must come to an end

And I don’t long

To venture back now

Just want to find myself again