In Silence - Bellows

Can you tell who has the loudest voice here?

Do you notice who here isn’t speaking?

Through the smallest movement of your eyelids

There’s a secret only I can see and

Tried to gather up this weight to hold you

But I couldn’t find the words to match it

They rage on you with the loudest voice here

I don’t even summon up a whisper

I tried to lift this weight in silence

Tried to walk this road in silence

Tried to shout so loud in silence

But no one could hear the thought I held to you

I wrote a song to honor your trial

And another about the season’s passing

But I never wrote a song that cut through

To the silence at the center of you

Such a perfect form I perceived in silence

Such a beauty, I could not describe it

Such a weight, I had no words to fight it

And you will not hear the way it holds me

Oh, in silence

Oh, in silence

Oh, in silence

Your enemy plays the game of virtue

He rages with the loudest voice too

In public squares he seeks to shame you

But he cannot penetrate the part of you

That will break his hold in silence

That will stay this breach in silence

That will hold the castle longer

'Til no one can hear the way we loved her