Your words flow like oil on my ears
Drowning the meaning I need to be clear
I don’t need the promises you try to mean
And I don’t want the sacrifice of any of your dreams
All I ask of you
All that you can do
Is speak to me
In your authentic voice

Hold me close and make it right
Stay with me through this bright night
I’m not afraid of what I feel
If I know that you are really the one
Who speaks to me
In your authentic voice

Love needs no words to be strong
Trust adds no guilt in its song
You cannot buy me, so please don’t even start
You cannot earn my love, but I can give my heart
All I ask of you
All that you can do
Is speak to me
In your authentic voice

Tell me truth or tell me lies
I can’t read that in your eyes
But I hear it in your smile
In your hopeless peace, your violent dismay
Just speak to me
In your authentic voice

All I ask of you
All that you can do
Is speak to me
In your authentic voice

Leigh Harrison © APRA 2004