Nanci Griffith - More Than A Whisper lyrics

Oh, I wish that you would call

We have not spoken since last fall

That smoky conversation's coming home

Do I just read between your lines

Yeah, it could be this winter wine

So sweet upon my tongue tonight

It recalls your tender eyes

And I need more than a whisper

So much more than a whisper

It takes more than a whisper

To wake this weary fool

Oh, give me more than a whisper

If you're saying I love you

'Cos it's the whispers that I've never understood

And 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

Because I've been lonely all my life

And I'd be reaching for some silver

And leaving my heart out in the fire

And I need more than a whisper

So much more than a whisper

It takes more than a whisper

To wake this weary fool

Oh, give me more than a whisper

If you're saying I love you

'Cos it's the whispers that I've never understood

Well, I will drink my winter wine

When I get home I'll change my life

I'll only whisper that I love you

In those smoky 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

'Cos I need more than a whisper

So much more than a whisper

It takes more than a whisper

To wake this weary fool

Oh, give me more than a whisper

If you're saying I love you

'Cos it's the whispers that I've never understood