Lyrics More Than A Whisper - Nanci Griffith

More Than A Whisper

How I wish that you would call… we have not spoken since last fall
Now that smokey conversation’s come and gone
Do I just read between your line?
Or could it be this winter wine… so sweet upon my tongue tonight
Recalls your tender eyes
O, I need more than a whisper… so much more than a whisper
It takes more than a whisper to wake this weary fool
Give me more than a whisper… if you’re sayin’I love you
'cuz it’s the whispers I have never understood
It’s snowin’up in the northlands… I read your warm words from the plains
While the poets say that I should never be thinkin’of you this way
They say that I misread your lines 'cuz I’ve been lonely all my life
And here I’m reachin’for some silver and leavin’my heart out in the fire
I will drink my winter wine… when I get home I’ll change my mind
I’ll only whisper that I love you in those smokey 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