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Words
Verse 1
Wendell, I am not a person who says things out loud
I say them in the car alone or lying in the dark
Nine years and I have thanked you for the coffee and the door
And never once for staying when I gave you cause to go
So I borrowed something loud enough to get across the room
And I am going to say it badly and I'm going to say it soon
Chorus
Loud enough to say it, loud enough at last
Nine Februaries later and it is still not in the past
I love you like a hammer, I love you like a hymn
Loud enough to say it — Wendell, let me say it again
Verse 2
You sat in that grey hallway through the whole of ninety hours
You brought me the wrong sandwich twice and I have kept the receipt
You do not want a speech, you want the bins out on a Tuesday
You want the porch light and the dog fed and my feet against your feet
So I will do that too, I'll do that every day I've got
But today it is February and I want the street to know what I have got
Chorus
Loud enough to say it, loud enough at last
Nine Februaries later and it is still not in the past
I love you like a hammer, I love you like a hymn
Loud enough to say it — Wendell, let me say it again
Bridge
If we get another nine I want them just as plain
Same bad kitchen radio, same argument about the rain
Same you across the table, saying nothing, being there
Final Chorus
Loud enough to say it, loud enough at last
Nine Februaries later and I'd take another past
I love you like a hammer, I love you like a hymn
Loud enough to say it — happy anniversary, come here
Outro
That is it, that's the whole song, I have nothing else to add
Except I'd do it all again, and I would do it twice as loud
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