Turn up the Silence – Lyrics

Track Lyrics:

The loud shroud

Clouds the now,

How?

This quiet

Disquiet,

In the endless

Echo riot.

Grab the knob,

To turn up the silence.

When the white noise is violence,

Silence is to give,

What it is to live:

Aloud/allowed.

Turn up the silence,

Turn down the radio violence.

Turn up the dial,

Dial a quiet inquiry:

Can you hear me now?

Can you hear me now?

Can you hear me now?

Can you hear me?

You shouldn’t.

I should

be still,

Still,

The thrill

Says list-en !

Listen,

Listen,

Listen (reversed)

Or en-list

In the uncivil

Civilian corps

Of discourse.

Or

Dis-course to plan:

a recourse of sorts.

Trust, you must

Use the force, of course:

These are not the days we were looking for.

Recalculating…

New plan,

Given only escape-ism

In this schism prism.

A home unknown,

There’s no place like smartphone!

That known

Need-to-know

Unknown.

I wish that phone

I’d thrown!

Off it’s thrown.

The blissful

Unknown;

The ignorance

dance:

Is it temporary

Or exclusionary?

The FOMO

oh no, no!

Where to go?

Where’s the map?

Whose photos to tap?

Cashing in this reality check;

Paid in blue-billed birds,

Not even *one* blue check.

Step

By

Step

I feel

Real.

Listen!

For the beautiful

Silence.