Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Two Sides Of Silence, artist - Linton Kwesi Johnson. Album song Bass Culture, in the genre Поп
Date of issue: 31.12.1979
Record label: Island, Universal Music Operations
Song language: English
Two Sides Of Silence |
To us |
Who were |
Of necessary birth |
For the earths hard |
And thankless toil |
Silence has no meaning |
There is never a feeling |
Of tranquility |
Or mere quietness |
Never a moment |
Of soundless calm |
From within or without |
Our troubled selves |
How can the clamor |
Of sounds be stilled? |
There is no void where |
Noices can collect |
And be made mute |
How indeed |
Can there be silence |
When our hearts beat out |
A sonorous beat |
Meeting the beating drums |
Of an african past |
When our eyes shed |
Solid tears of iron blood |
That falls on concrete ground |
Inside our ears |
Are the many wailing cries |
Of mysery |
Inside our bodies |
The internal bleeding |
Of () volcanos |
Inside our heads |
The wrapped in thoughts |
Of rebellion |
How can there be calm |
When the storm is yet to come? |
This unending silence |
Taut, impervious, unbending |
Not lending an ear |
To the most delicate of sounds |
Awaits the blast of bombs |
Which man will explode |
To break this silent bond |
To () |
To the use to create |
Hills of soft obedience |
Where sweet-clothed sounds |
Can rebound |
And their echoes glide |
Like a carefree bird |
In rythmic calm |
To a mellow |
Pure, silent space |