Know When To Walk Away

brilliant song, brilliant man. so good.

your silence is murder basically the other person won't talk to him they're just there together and he can't bear it his innocence is gone his heart is broken and he has to walk away

I interpret this song as someone who is physically abused in a relationship and refuses to acknowledge it....

she simply needs to "know when to walk away."

I agree 100% with cstanton. I know it is completely wrong, but this song also speaks to me as an introvert. Particularly the line "The only way that i know how to be, is slowly killing me." I feel like "Your silence is murder" is talking about how hard it is to be introverted in an extrovert world. It is like a blow to my self esteem every time I can't think of something to say in a conversation. Of course I realize that this isn't true, because the other lines prove otherwise lol. idk maybe I'm crazy. It's a great song either way.

so we can't delete these comments, but i changed my mind,

or i thought about it more clearly i guess, i think that the silence is actually murder.

at least it might lead to one, slowly grind away the innocence, it's literal as this small child has to watch his mother get beaten, it slowly grinds away his innocence, the only way he knows how to live is to stay out of the way, but it kills him because of what the male figure is doing to his mother.

and the fact that until this moment he has said nothing, and that she will most likely go on saying nothing, keeping her silence, will lead to her death.

if she doesn't learn when to walk away, and soon; her silence might literally be her undoing.

I completely see it the way you guys do: "If you can hide the evidence" Keep anyone from figuring out she/he's being beaten. "If you can choke down the laughs" I don't know, maybe the person beating doesn't have any pity and it just makes them laugh how the other person just shuts up. "It's too late to let it in when it's under your skin" It's too late to get over it (actually, it can also mean to speak up) when you already have a connection, are already attached. Someone might also think of it as cheating. Hiding the evidence of it. Slowly grind away the innocence can be that one is influencing another into things they've never done before, most likely sex. I guess I see it this the way I do because I can relate to it so much more this way.