Words are Windows or They're Walls lyrics

Words are Windows or They're Walls
By Marshall Rosenberg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEeYd4DQH78&t=0m14s

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I feel so sentenced by your words.
I feel so judged and sent away.
Before I go I'd like to know.
Is that what you meant to say?

Before I rise to my defense.
Before I speak in hurt or fear.
Before I build that wall of words.
Tell me did I really hear?

Walls are Windows or they're Walls
They sentence us or set us free.
When I speak and when I hear.
Let the love light shine through me.

There are things I need to say.
Things that mean so much to me.
If my words don't make me clear.
Will you help me to be free?

If I seem to put you down.
If you felt I didn't care.
Try to listen through my words.
To the feelings that we share.

Words are Windows or they're Walls.
They sentence us or set us free.
When I speak and when I hear.
Let the love light shine through me.