Mother said.

My Mother once said, if you have nothing good to say, say nothing,

It's a really good saying, saying nothing is really saying something,

Something that can't be misunderstood, or taken the wrong way,

Or misconstrued to mean something else, something you didn't mean to say,

Now saying something, that's just the road to ruin, something you never meant,

It's a really easy mistake to make, saying something whose meaning is bent

Out of shape, meaning something else, somehow misheard in a strange way,

The meaning the opposite of everything that you meant to say,

Words are what make us human, and separate us from the rest,

We are the only ones who can speak, but it's not always for the best,

Our words are always misshapen, taken out of context, heard in a different way,

And then arguments follows as we try to explain exactly what we did say

You see it's not really what we say thats wrong, it's what people hear,

Well actually it's what they don't hear, or what they want to hear, deaf ears,

Not listening properly, not paying attention, listen while looking the other way,

The meaning lost forever, or just scrambled, absolutely.........

oh sorry, what did you say?