Too Many Words

Too many words
Get in the way
Of all the clever things
That I was planning to say
Too many words
Over the top
I know what I'm doing
But I can't seem to stop

I've been nervous thinking
About what I'd say tonight
I rehearsed a whole lot cuz
I wanted to get it right
I was looking here and there
Through all the words I knew
To find the words to tell you
How I feel about you

Too many words
Got in the way
Of whatever it was that I thought
I wanted say
The most important things
Are hard to convey
That's when too many words
Get in the way

Long as I remember it's always been this way
No matter what I talk about I got too much to say
All my songs are far too long
My stories are long too
I rarely choose a single word when 5 or 10 might do

I stumbled over adjectives
Adverbs, nouns and verbs
All I heard myself say
Was a jumbled mess of words
I felt I should apologise
For what I'd put you through
Before I could you smiled and said
You already knew

I wasn't sure
What it was I heard
I was still caught up in my
Avalanche of words
I felt so alive like I could
Laugh and dance and sing
But I couldn't manage
To say a single thing

You taught me a lot
About talking since that day
I learned that what you hear
Matters more than what I say
I still got a ways to go
Before I master brevity
But I'm getting better at telling you
What you mean to me
I took some time and thought about
All the words I could do without
One by one I cut them out
'Til the only words left numbered three