More Than A Whisper

(Album: The Last Of The True Believers - 1986)

How I wish that you would call... we have not spoken since last fall
Now that smokey conversation's come and gone
Do I just read between your lines?
Or could it be this winter wine?... so sweet upon my tongue tonight
Recalls your tender eyes

O, I need more than a whisper... so much more than a whisper
It takes more than a whisper to wake this weary fool
Give me more than a whisper... if you're saying I love you
'Cause it's the whispers I have never understood

It's snowing up in the northlands... I read your warm words from the plains
While the poets say that I should never be thinking of you this way
They say that I misread your lines 'cause I've been lonely all my life
And here I'm reaching for some silver and leaving my heart out in the fire

O, I need more than a whisper... so much more than a whisper
It takes more than a whisper to wake this weary fool
Give me more than a whisper... if you're saying I love you
'Cause it's the whispers I have never understood

I will drink my winter wine... when I get home I'll change my mind
I'll only whisper that I love you in those smokey bars at night
And though the poets say I'm lonely... there's still this woman here inside
And I've never been a fool when my heart was on the line

O, I need more than a whisper... so much more than a whisper
It takes more than a whisper to wake this weary fool
Give me more than a whisper... if you're saying I love you
'Cause it's the whispers I have never understood