Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
I cut your throat, wide, opening
A hole in your neck
Your blood sprays my skin warm and wet
You can't feel your heart beating
Scream no one is listening
I cut your tongue from your mouth
Dying you feel yourself slip away
Your dead body will be left, unburied
On one will find you dead
All is quiet as I force my fist down your cut throat
Grabing tendons and veins
I pull your insides out through your lipless mouth
Your stiff body is cold and still
Dying you feel yourself slip away
Your dead body will be left, unburied
On one will find you dead
Violent
Silence
Dying you feel yourself slip away
Your dead body will be left, unburied
On one will find you dead
Haphazardly I remove your spleen
And your liver
There is much blood
Eyes have been removed
While you were still alive
Now I tear your flesh, I am ripping your skin
Dying you feel yourself slip away
Your dead body will be left, unburied
On one will find you dead
Fingerless hands, clenched - I continue to dissect
Blood spurting from punctured flesh
Your naked body stripped of skin
Soon you will rotten
Insects infest your flesh
A hole in your neck
Your blood sprays my skin warm and wet
You can't feel your heart beating
Scream no one is listening
I cut your tongue from your mouth
Dying you feel yourself slip away
Your dead body will be left, unburied
On one will find you dead
All is quiet as I force my fist down your cut throat
Grabing tendons and veins
I pull your insides out through your lipless mouth
Your stiff body is cold and still
Dying you feel yourself slip away
Your dead body will be left, unburied
On one will find you dead
Violent
Silence
Dying you feel yourself slip away
Your dead body will be left, unburied
On one will find you dead
Haphazardly I remove your spleen
And your liver
There is much blood
Eyes have been removed
While you were still alive
Now I tear your flesh, I am ripping your skin
Dying you feel yourself slip away
Your dead body will be left, unburied
On one will find you dead
Fingerless hands, clenched - I continue to dissect
Blood spurting from punctured flesh
Your naked body stripped of skin
Soon you will rotten
Insects infest your flesh
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Silent Violence Lyrics as written by Allen West Chris Barnes
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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