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00:00 (dramatic music)
00:02 (birds chirping)
00:11 (birds chirping)
00:14 (birds chirping)
00:41 - There is a place called silence
00:43 where no hope or harm can be.
00:46 It lies below some far horizon,
00:49 a belly high for you and me.
00:51 Its place is still and hushed,
00:54 its walls of tender care,
00:56 where all our hearts find refuge,
00:58 but none of us can take you there.
01:01 For we must go alone and cold
01:03 before we know its tender care.
01:05 None can be companion now,
01:08 none can take you by the hand nor share,
01:11 except on summer nights or walking through the park
01:15 or when some stranger laughs
01:17 that will pierce one and every heart.
01:19 For silence like an upturned bowl
01:22 covers all but doesn't stop
01:24 the heartache at the edge of time
01:26 or stop the ever ticking clock.
01:28 For passing bells need to be rung,
01:35 but memories inflict such sore
01:37 that in your now and twilight world,
01:40 our thoughts are nothing more
01:42 than time recaptured of the years gone by,
01:45 but fierce as they were to live old times again
01:48 with swaddled love that drenched the world in liquid gold.
01:52 When all the years yet to come
02:00 are squandered in the here and now
02:03 and what remains is sequestered
02:05 in a shuttered room amongst the dust amidst the gloom.
02:09 So if you let me know you're there in silence's embrace,
02:13 breathe a sigh and tell me so,
02:16 for you are gone and not replaced,
02:19 but echoes of your loveliest self
02:21 will bear us through life's cruel stream.
02:24 And if I am to join you there,
02:26 oh, what joy your face will bring.
02:28 Oh, tell me now, oh, tell me all,
02:32 for my poor heart with tears is wringed.
02:36 (gentle music)
02:39 (gentle music)
02:41, (gentle music)
02:46, (gentle music)
02:51 (gentle music)
02:54 (gentle music)
02:57 (gentle music)
02:59 (gentle music)
03:02 (gentle music)
03:05 (gentle music)
03:09 (keyboard clacking)
03:13 (keyboard clacking)
03:16 [MUSIC]