This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Let my silence be heard
Is this what I got?
Oh, oh, oh, ooh, ooh, yeah
It was late October
And the stars were up at night
I looked around but couldn't see
The truth in you but I
Kept my dignity for me
But I felt that suddenly
I was all but deep inside
And couldn't hide anymore
Is this what I get for being
A good person to you?
And all of the things, I find out now
How could you do?
But I will not change
I will just grow, from now on I know
Let the silence be heard
Let the silence be heard
Is this what I get for being
A good person to you?
And all of the things I find out now
How could you do?
But I will not change
I will just grow, from now on I know
Let the silence be heard
Silence be heard
Tell me, do you remember
How you'd always hold me close?
But I'm glad I didn't give you
The best of me, don't you see that?
The candles burned out long ago
Now I'm as cold as ice, I know
I tried to be a friend
But you just threw it all away
Is this what I get for being
A good person to you?
And all of the things, I'm finding out now
How could you do?
But I will not change
I will just grow, from now on I know
Let the silence be heard
Let the silence be heard
Is this what I get for being
A good person to you?
And all of the things, I found out now
How could you do?
But I will not change
I will just grow, from now on I know
Let the silence be heard
Let the silence be heard
Oh, oh, oh
Let the silence be heard
For being a good person to you
For being a good person to you
Is this what I get? Oh, ooh
Is this what I get for being
A good person to you?
And all of the things, I found out now
How could you do?
But I will not change
I will just grow, from now on I know
Let the silence be heard
Let the silence be heard
Is this what I got?
Oh, oh, oh, ooh, ooh, yeah
It was late October
And the stars were up at night
I looked around but couldn't see
The truth in you but I
Kept my dignity for me
But I felt that suddenly
I was all but deep inside
And couldn't hide anymore
Is this what I get for being
A good person to you?
And all of the things, I find out now
How could you do?
But I will not change
I will just grow, from now on I know
Let the silence be heard
Let the silence be heard
Is this what I get for being
A good person to you?
And all of the things I find out now
How could you do?
But I will not change
I will just grow, from now on I know
Let the silence be heard
Silence be heard
Tell me, do you remember
How you'd always hold me close?
But I'm glad I didn't give you
The best of me, don't you see that?
The candles burned out long ago
Now I'm as cold as ice, I know
I tried to be a friend
But you just threw it all away
Is this what I get for being
A good person to you?
And all of the things, I'm finding out now
How could you do?
But I will not change
I will just grow, from now on I know
Let the silence be heard
Let the silence be heard
Is this what I get for being
A good person to you?
And all of the things, I found out now
How could you do?
But I will not change
I will just grow, from now on I know
Let the silence be heard
Let the silence be heard
Oh, oh, oh
Let the silence be heard
For being a good person to you
For being a good person to you
Is this what I get? Oh, ooh
Is this what I get for being
A good person to you?
And all of the things, I found out now
How could you do?
But I will not change
I will just grow, from now on I know
Let the silence be heard
Let the silence be heard
Lyrics submitted by SMUSER17185761
Silence Be Heard Lyrics as written by Mtawarira Goodrem
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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