Silence Rings Lyrics

I have soared like an eagle

I have called out like a bell

I have made myself my home

Just like a turtle in his shell

I have hollered to the wind

And heard it answer me

But somehow I’m still not free

I have loved as a father

I have loved as a child

I have traded in my tameness

For a life unkind and wild

I have faced what I have lost

And let go what might have been

But somehow I’m still not free

Oh the wind is cold when the sun don’t shine

On the loading docks or deep within the mine

And the work is hard and the pay is poor

And you can remember what the point of it is for

And I will hold my tongue

Just like my father said I should

And it will break my heart

Just like my mother said it would

Silence rings like bells that toll

But secrets stay unheard

And I will never tell a soul

How pain defines a word