Maybe you learned it from your family   Mix in a little of the old midwest   It seems someone out there built a legacy   On keeping everything tight under wraps   And all the secrets in the silos   You won't even whisper them to the prairie wind   And now we're talking on the telephone   Skimming the surface of this ocean   Just skimming the surface of this ocean      Chorus:   You know you're drowning me   In all you're not saying   Swept under the rug for so long, oh darling   Don't it get lonely when you're the only one who knows?      All the over-encrypted poetry   Unintelligible tales of the truth   It was all dripping with mystery   Enough to keep me there long overdue   So honey, honey, drop the metaphor   Honey, honey, won't you come clean because...      Chorus      Well I don't claim to be so forthright   It's not my strongpoint   But your attempts are illusory   And you don't even know it, you don't even know it      So maybe you learned it from your family   Maybe that's just your best excuse   You could use some New York City   You could use your own talk show host      Because I am drowning in all   That you're not saying   I want to shake your shoulders   I want to rip down the curtains   Oh, 'cause all I remember   Are these opaque conversations   When so much of the meaning   Just got lost in the translation...      It's a tale so ordinary   There you were with your pretty mouth closed   But darling you should have told me the ending   Long before you did