She's Given up Talking

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Rating Comments Author Date
Average song rating Daniel Boneschansker October 19, 2008
Average song rating In Paul's next album he sings about Jenny Wren, whose 'broken heart took her song away'. We are not furnished with any such explanation for this little anonymous girl's behavior, just the stark, unartistic facts. That helps give this song a very somber, mysterious sense which is compelling but ultimately not satisfying. Bruce Beatlefan June 3, 2006

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She's given up talking
Don't say a word
Even in the classroom
Not a dickie bird
Unlike other children
She's seen and never heard
She's given up talking
Don't say a word

You see her in the playground
Standing on her own
Everybody wonders
Why she's all alone
Someone made her angry
Someone's got her scared
She's given up talking
Don't say a word

Ah but when she comes home
It's yap-a-yap-yap
Words are running freely
Like the water from a tap
Her brothers and her sisters
Can't get a word in edgeways
But when she's back at school again
She goes into a daze

Ah but when she comes home
It's yap-a-yap-yap
Words are running freely
Like the water from a tap
Her brothers and her sisters
Can't get a word in edgeways
But when she's back at school again
She goes into a daze

She's given up talking
Don't say a word
Even in the classroom
Not a dickie bird
Unlike other children
She's seen and never heard
She's given up talking
Don't say a word

She's given up talking
She don't say a word

Don't say a word

 

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