If you really knew how I felt,

You wouldn't need to be here asking

Those questions,

Those irritating questions, moving in metaphors,

Speaking in tongues.



your gunboat diplomacy,

You accuse me of heresy, of being irreverent,

My opinions irrelevant, when I smile at your smiles,

When you're speaking in tongues.



As we move to a stalemate,

you say a contract's a contract

& this is unnegotiable,

I question your morality, you question my reality

You're speaking in tongues



(chorus)



We are speaking in tonugues,

We are speaking in tongues,

Am I deaf because I cannot comprehend?

We're speaking in tongues,

We're speaking in tongues,

We're spekaing in tongues,

Though I try I just cannot understand.



Your entrenched opinions,

On the border of arrogance,

Dug in against the compromise.

A position indefensible, your actions illogical

You're speaking in tongues



You swear contradictions

your tedious monologues, wielding authority,

Demanding subservience, demanding

I make your sense.

Demanding speaking in tongues.



(Dedicated to Rupert Perry, MD EMI UK