Mother Tongue

I have walked into a hundred walls just trying to dance around you

I turned your eyes to crystal balls the second that I found you

Funny how fast we forget

Yeah, yeah

There's poetry in me, for you, I temper it a little

You just wanna rub my back, baby, I speak to you in riddles

’Cause I know you like it like that

I was leaving in your driveway and I almost came clear

I almost stopped looking in my rear-view mirror

'Cause I wanna be delivered

Yeah, I wanna be delivered

I've been stranded too long on your island

I fear that I learned to survive in silence

Smiling at everyone

I’ve forgotten my mother tongue

I wear something that's revealing, but'll cover all the scars

I know you hate the sight of blood, even safe inside my heart

Count on me, I will protect you[Pre-Chorus]

They must've paid three hundred bucks for those shades

I got some just like 'em, now we've got it made

But I wanna be delivered

Will I ever be delivered?

I've been stranded too long on your island

I fear that I learned to survive in silence

Smiling at everyone

I've forgotten my mother tongue

Well, I dreamed I was waving my arms in the sky

I grabbed onto the leg of some strange passerby

I said, "You look so familiar compared to this place

Won’t you please take me (Take me), take me (Take me), take me (Take me)

Take me away?"

I’ve been stranded too long on your island

I fear that I learned to survive in silence

Smiling at everyone

I've forgotten my mother tongue

Oh, I’ve been stranded too long on your island

What's mine is yours, what's yours is mine

The glass is broken and we are on

But I've forgotten my mother tongue