All you need to be

When the static on the radio

is all that I am hearing

through the sad songs that it's playing

and the willow-trees a-swaying

in the wind,

When the clouds all seem to gather

on the places I'd much rather be,

Then nothing could be better for me,

nothing could mean more to me,

than hello,

a sound that simply flows

to my head from the toes down on my feet,

hello is all I need

When the voice from which it leads is the one,

that makes the static and sad songs disappear,

all you need to be is near,

all you need to be is near.

When the silence is what's creeping

in the attic of my feeling

And the right words seem the wrong ones

and darkness is overcoming me

Then nothing could be better for me,

nothing could mean more to me,

than hello,

a sound that simply flows

to my head from the toes down on my feet,

hello is all I need

When the voice from which it leads is the one,

that makes the darkness and the silence dissapear,

all you need to be is near,

all you need to be is near.

'n f a cat's got your tongue,

and you get the words all wrong

If silence is your strength

and you'd rather not say jack

to me,

then all you need to be is near,

all you need to be is near,

all you need to be is, here.