Words by Wayne Kirkpatrick & KimHill. Music by Wayne Kirkpatrick & Gordon Kennedy ©1991 Emily BootheInc.
(BMI)/Edward Grant Inc. (ASCAP) / Brown N Serve Music (ASCAP). Arrangement Chris Smith & Debra Mayo.
Careful what you’re saying, someone could get burned there’s a fatal fire in words.
Careful when you’re talking, think before you’re heard there’s a deadly poison in words.
‘Cause once you say it, you can never change it, and you can’t really take it back.
Like a shooting arrow, hurling through the dark, words are piercing when they hit their mark.
Sticks and stones will break you, but the bruise can heal while those words are cutting deeper still,
‘Cause once you say it, you can never change it and you can’t really take it back
Once the heart is stung, the pain can be eternal Oh to curb the tongue, you know weapons can be verbal.
Backing vocals: Debra Mayo, Louise and Simon Gudger