Silence Silence They all talk but the dialogue is dead Silence Silence It's the noise from the mouths that can't listen As loud as you might cry As loud as you might cry Ears will close and the noise will tear your sound A kingdom of deaf minds Screaming their hearts out In despair, lost and lonely in the crowd Words are slowly leaving And I would love to speak But everyone is building their own Tower of Babel here I'm lost in the sound Echoing around Losing meaning for each human wall I hit The tide will rise A thousand times They will still build a wall and not a bridge Words are slowly leaving And I would love to talk We are grains of sand in an hourglass Trying to prevent the fall