Baby take my hand and I'll take you higher   'Cause my one desire is you and I need you now   More than ever if it takes forever and I know   These things are things you've heard   But up 'til now they were only words      CHORUS:   Dancing on the lips of intimate strangers   Shallow like the city, now they're vivid like the sun   Blinding me with spirit   In the night my private soul can hear it   Common as the hummingbirds   But they were only words      Now I feel like a wise old man   I now understand all the hows, the whens, the whys   These thoughts are mine for the very first time   Love it springs, it blooms, eternal and true   It may sound like nothing new to you      Only words      CHORUS      BRIDGE:   Here's hoping that we'll never break the silence   Here's hoping that we never run from ourselves   Here's hoping "can't" and "never", "not now"   And "gee it's time to go" are words we'll never know      CHORUS:   Dancing on the lips of intimate strangers   Oh Yeah! Now they're vivid like the sun   Blinding me with spirit   In the night my private soul can hear it   Common as the hummingbirds   But they were only words      CHORUS:   Dancin' on the lips of intimate strangers   Shallow like the city, now they're vivid like the sun   Blinding me with spirit   In the night my private soul can hear it   Common as the hummingbirds   Only words      Blinding me with spirit   In the night my private soul can hear it   Common as the hummingbirds   But they were only words