Listen, the Silences

Michelle [Bloom] - Listen, the Silences

Inspired by Thomas Merton's Essays Raids on the Unspeakable

Listen to the Track:

Lyrics:
I would not take away the very words by which you live,
But I would show you things unseen and the silences instead.
Just below the water,
In the space between the ribs,
I don’t want to talk, I just want to listen.

The rain is falling now, I want to hear every word that’s said.
Some larger rhythmic pattern, this conversation on my head.
Just below the water,
In the space between the ribs,
I don’t want to talk, I just want to listen.

I want to listen to the giant waterfalls of the sun.
Some kind of delicious music runs like light through the blood.
How can I tell you what was spoken
There is so much left unsaid.
And anyway, I don’t want to talk,
I just want to listen.

© Michelle [Bloom]