How Strange the Silence - The Devil and the Almighty Blues

How strange the silence

Deep and timeless

It lays heavy in the night time air

All those voices

Lost and waiting

Echo through a windless night

Words found wanting

Words forgotten

I treated my own words like slaves

Oh silence

How strange the silence

When all is gone and taken away

Speak from the heart

Let the soul out

Or bind your tongue and speak not at all

Oh fire

Sacred fire

Your warmth is lost on these old bones

So it all went

And passed us by

Those days are gone, oh so long gone

Oh silence

How strange the silence

When all is gone and taken away