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When a room becomes an altar

And what beast that must exist

 It flies with music from our lips

 And steals a kiss and blows it

Out into the mist

Where castles stand on cliffs

And cobbled streets they wind and drift

 And moods are made and set but shift

 This place where skies are low

And birds are big

We went to sleep in day

And woke again the same day

 We have learned to cheat the time

 And find the hours

 That the clocks cannot define

As I looked up from that stage

 I felt the thing that had been made

And how it raged

 And how it raged

 How to explain?

Something makes me howl

 And shiver to the core

 Ah outside if it was raining

 Then inside there'd be a storm

 We've got a pair of hands for climbing

 And a pair of knees to spring

 And a pair of balls for strength

 And a pair of lungs to sing

 And these simple chords

 That say: music is the language of us all

To write these songs is to be written

Ah the chorus always knows

 What is in store

 And what is more the thing that sings us

 Is the thing that makes us roar

I felt that beast 'kisso my neck

We clapped our hands

 And heard them spread

 There was a trumpet and a call

 A pack of Spaniards screamed for more

Music is the language of us all

Music is the language of us all

Music is the language of us all

Music is the language of us all

 I find it hard to speak emotional

 Cos these things are the things that

 Can't be said

And when it's struck it strikes

 The memory from our heads

 Once I wrote to play's

 To be immortal for a night

 And despite the unknown hours

 Something happens

 When the light turns out the lights

 Then we fade and yawn

 To music that's the language of us all

HAYMAN