Lyrics Sticks and Stones - Wayne Watson

Sticks and stones can break my bones
Lies can break my heart
Before you fire your poison tongue
Contemplate the scar

Forest lie in ruin from a careless flame
This is our undoin'
The tongue cannot be tamed

Ships upon the Seven seas
Driven by the wind
Mastered by the pilot's hand
Submission in the end

He can turn the wheel one-handed
And the course is easily changed
Hard to understand it
Why the tongue cannot be tamed

Fresh water from an unclean well
Fruit growing on a dying tree
No, it'll never be
The same breathe -- one then the other
Blessing and cursing
We praise God then abuse one another
I tell you this ought not be

Break the wild one, draw the reign
Bid him do your will
Yoke the oxen to the chain, cultivate
The hill

Beast and every creature
Move at your command
But who will be the teacher
Of the wayward tongue of man

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