Light up a cigarette to kill time   Pacing this floor another dozen times   If there was some way to express it otherwise, I would   Fed up on fighting over crumbs and dust   Don't have to be this way, a hollow trust   If we could find some way to make it right   We would, we would      And then the silence came   There was not a word to say   One hour felt like a day   When the silence came   We felt it on our bodies   No way to turn it around   One hour felt like a day    When the silence came      Can't hear nothing but the dripping from the town   Blowing kisses, no one to grab   Need to organize this life that we have, if we could      God knows what we have sacrificed   Guess we deserve the days of our lives   Wish we could learn how to let things slide away   Just for a day      And then the silence came   There was not a word to say   One hour felt like a day   When the silence came   We felt it on our bodies   No way to turn it around   One hour felt like a day    When the silence came      God knows what we have sacrificed   Guess we deserve the days of our lives   Wish we could learn how to let things slide   For a day      And then the silence came   There was not a word to say   One hour felt like a day   When the silence came   We felt it on our bodies   No way to turn it around   One hour felt like a day    When the silence came