Stranger Silence

from Return by shore lights

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you are not so different from me but my eyes can see the waves that yours can't see it's a fast track catastrophe and you know somebody's gotta bleed and if we don't see this through to the end then you and i will be the ones left in the pen cause you and i are only flesh to them

under deck with the other stowaways i have learned to say what you never could say and how i'd love to take this day to let all trouble float away but if we don't lose some weight right now then together with the ship we're all going down and you and i will be the first to drown

hold onto and restrain your silence
your stranger silence
only to lose the chains of silence
of stranger silence

just hotel kids my sister and me
she took me right up to the edge of the dream
said "just behind this electrified fence the climate controlled land of our birth right awaits but you and i are locked outside the gates"

get on line to restrain your silence
your stranger silence
it's their crime but we'll be framed in silence
left to the flames in silence

and when there's no one else around we'll make our own waves underground
and when there's no one else around we'll rise our own tide underground

look from the other side
put yourself behind unseeing eyes
if you're not building a raft for us all then you might as well not even build one at all cause i won't be the one to make the call

don't leave the stranger silent
don't leave the other blinded
inside your mind

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from Return, released October 30, 2020

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