Talked With Our Hands

TTTO “Spoke With Our Hands”, Echo’s Children

When I was a youngster, our school tried to teach

That moving your hand’s not required for speech

But from all I could see, it’s the way it’s done here

You can see someone’s talking without your ears

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We talk with our hands, can not do otherwise

We are rough and direct, we’re just plain simple guys

Don’t gesture’s a thing that no one understands

In a country where everyone talks with their hands

But as much as I did it, I still had my fears

That doing it this way would end all in tears

And I couldn’t explain, and nobody would care

Why our gesturing isn’t a good thing to share

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Keep your hand on the wheel, here, no one understands

In a country where everyone talks with their hands

I can try to conceal it but still I am caught

For my gesturing hands I can’t stop ‘till I rot

And I hoped it would stop with the wisdom of age

That I gesture in happiness, sadness or rage

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Talking and Wii-ing, no one understands

In a country where everyone talks with their hands

I talk with my hands, as I did so before

To gesture when talking is deep in my core

Though I’m far from my country, I’m doing it still

Earth be my witness – I meant you no ill

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In hand-cuffs, and speaking? No one understands

In a country where everyone talks with their hands