
DEAFENING Lyrics
- Genre:Acoustic
- Year of Release:2023
Lyrics
We moved into the new neighborhood
And my best friend's parents were both deaf
They met at the Oral School
A repository for the children
Of a lesser God
I understood
I understood their language
The teletype phone
The electronic calls
They could respond to
She chastised me
For reading the family mail
But I never opened an envelope
She asked me why
"It's the words, it's all I have" I replied, when asked
"You seem to value them?" she noticed
"Don't you?"
Their oldest arrived home in a late 70's haze
One night during a sleepover
I had never heard someone scolded
By a parent
Quite like that
Quite like that
It was deafening