Silence is Our Medicine

from PATTERNS by THE BLACK AND WHITE YEARS

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we really should learn to talk. i've had quite enough of this acting tough.
we're typical - cynical, critical.
we really ought not to fight. we've done quite enough harm for one night.
it's pitiful. we are still standing still.
(and maybe we should talk.)
silence. that is all that we have at the end.
our old friend, silence.
careful choosing your destiny. don't you be martyrs to silence.
the contrast in between me and you. that is the glue that binds us together.
that and the force of friction.
silence. that is all that we have as we stand.
worries and silence.
you may say we are better when we do it together. what exactly's your
comparison?
every day is an experiment in patience. i think maybe silence is the medicine.
you may say we are better off here than nowhere. but then let's
discuss where we have been.
every day is an experiment in positive thinking. maybe silence is the medicine.
action. everything is consequent. a bullet spent is sent into silence.
caution. make it your destiny to be the masters of silence.
gun blast. what a crucial note its violence wrote. it brought us together.
silence. that is all that we have as we stand.
goddamned silence.
we really should learn to talk. i've had quite enough of this acting tough.
we're typical - cynical, critical.
we really ought not to fight. we've done quite enough harm for one night.
it's pitiful. we are still standing still.
we really should learn to laugh at the requisite bumps in the path.
it's pitiful, miserable, but eventual.
we really ought not to fight. we've done quite enough harm for one life.
it's pitiful. we are still standing here in silence.
(and maybe we should talk.)

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from PATTERNS, released November 16, 2010

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