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 undoing
The tongue cannot be tamed
Oh, 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
It's hard to understand it
Why the tongue cannot be tamed
Oh, the tongue cannot be tamed

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