What Is True? Lyrics - Fairport Convention

(Sandy Denny) 

Silver tongues are speaking long and hard into the night 

I must be myself and I'll do alright 

Oh, please my darling, do not make me sad 

Late at night nobody really wants to feel that bad 

The rain it beats impatiently upon the window pane 

I must close my ears or I'll go insane 

Can't you be a gentle breeze or silent as a snowfall 

Won't you try and listen for the voice behind the wall 

It cries to you 

Chorus: 

Even though it only ever whispers part of what it knows 

And it's never ventured through the locks 

Where the brazen river flows 

It's the fingerprint which is never made 

It's the perfume of a rose 

And it is there if you are searching 

But the moment must be right 

As the night is black, as the day is white 

Please my friend, help to make me glad 

Help me find the one and only thing I've never had 

What is true 

Chorus 

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