Nanci Griffith - More Than A Whisper lyrics

How I wish that you would call we
Have not spoken since last fall
Now that smokey conversation's come and gone
Do I just read between your lines?
Or could it be this winter wine?
So sweet upon my tongue tonight
Recalls your tender eyes

O, I need more than a whisper
So much more than a whisper
It takes more than a whisper
To wake this weary fool
Give me more than a whisper if
You're sayin' I love you
'cuz it's the whispers I
Have never understood

It's snowin' up in the northlands i read
Your warm words from the plains
While the poets say that I should never
Be thinkin' of you this way
They say that I misread your lines 'cuz
I've been lonely all my life
And here I'm reachin' for some silver and
Leavin' my heart out in the fire

O, I need more than a whisper
So much more than a whisper
It takes more than a whisper
To wake this weary fool
Give me more than a whisper if
You're sayin' I love you
'cuz it's the whispers I
Have never understood

I will drink my winter wine when I
Get home I'll change my mind
I'll only whisper that I love you
In those smokey bars at night
And though the poets say I'm lonely
There's still this woman here inside
And I've never been a fool when
My heart was on the line

O, I need more than a whisper
So much more than a whisper
It takes more than a whisper
To wake this weary fool
Give me more than a whisper if
You're sayin' I love you
'cuz it's the whispers I
Have never understood