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Native Tongue

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Native Tongue

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Sing to me, baby, in your native tongueSing the words of the wise and the youngShow me the place where your words come fromELove's the language, love’s your native tongue[Verse 2]Feel your heartbeat bang the drumOpen up your eyes and fill your lungsAThe same word from where the stars are flungELove's the language, love's your native tongue[Chorus]My heart is a beating drumMy head in oblivionMy soul such a long way fromMy lips, my lungs, my native tongueMy friend, where did we go wrong?AMy Lord, we forgot our songMy soul such a long way fromMy lips, my lungs, my native tongueOh-woah-oh-woah-oh (My native tongue)Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh (My native tongue)[Verse 3]Sing it to me, whisper into my earAccuser’s voices start to disappearAIn the wind, in the tongues of the flameEIn my soul, in my one true name, oh[Verse 4]Back before we learned the words to start a fightBack before they told us that the haters were rightAHe spoke the truth, "Let there be" and there wasELove's the language, love's your native tongue[Chorus]My heart is a beating drumMy head in oblivionMy soul such a long way fromMy lips, my lungs, my native tongue[Bridge]So sing it out, get loud, getELouder than the voices in the crowd, yeahEven when they try to drown you out, ehYour lips, your lungs, your native tongueSo sing it out, get loud, getELouder than the darkness and the doubts, ehLouder than the curses and the shouts, yeahYour lips, your lungs, your native tongueOh-woah-oh-woah-ohOh-woah-oh-woah-oh[Chorus]My heart is a beating drumMy head in oblivionMy soul such a long way fromMy lips, my lungs, my native tongue[Outro][Refrão]I want the world to sing in her native tongueTo sing it like when we were youngBack before the pendulum had swung to the shadowsI want the world to sing in her native tongueMaybe we could learn to sing alongTo find a way to use our lungs for love and not the shadows[Refrão] (repetir)
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