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Silent Reigns
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SILENT REIGNS
Tell you what is real
And you'd actually believe me
Tell you how I feel
And you actually believe me
Silver chains the sculptor
For breaking a law called gravity
Rusty chains the prisoner
For breaking a law called sanity
And in your silence you condemn them
And in your private world
Stand condemned
Oh yeah, hearing noises now
Funny noises now
Can tell you all about yourself
While you sat home all by yourself
I sung about yourself
'Cos I told you what is real
And you'd actually believed me
Told you how I feel
And you actually believed me
Silent reigns the public
A sky of ex - expectation
Gold reigns my music
A process called evaporation
I'm evaporatin'
And in your silence you condemn them
And in your velvet robe
Stand condemned
I found me a space in the music
I'm going to take advantage of it
Found a little break for the singer, baby
Gonna take advantage of it
Breaking the laws of syntax
I'm stepping out of context
And I'm singing: 'Come on, come on, come on'
Free yourself
Free yourself
Free yourself
Come on, free yourself
You believed me
But in your silence you condemn them
Said in your velvet robe
You stand condemned
Said in your silence you condemn them
Said in your velvet robe
Stand condemned
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Lach Edinburgh, UK
Lach, founder of the Antifolk movement and star of BBC Radio 4's The Lach
Chronicles.
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