Moshe Friedman - Silence lyrics

Do you ever listen to silence? Or are you to preoccupied with business a**ignments And visiting clients from industry giants? Time is money - and you measure minutes in diamonds Who needs to sit through all that sickening silence When you can carry sound waves of glistening vibrance Through headphones as big as your iris? Cut off from the world in self-inflicted confinement What if you switched off that little appliance? Canceled all your meetings with the flick of a stylus How long could you listen without lifting your eyelids Living only with your brain and what's been sitting inside it? Would you discover worlds within that intimated island From the infinite highness to unlimited wideness Or are you too addicted to differing climates Being guided from outside by invisible pilots? Have you gotten used to being blissfully mindless Unable to dream without some stimulus firing? Or perhaps there's a place you have an interest in hiding A chilling reminder of an inner desire that you've long since given up fighting, out of fear of eliciting violence? See, the music of the world was once the hint of aliveness Until it became an escape from any symptom of virus So I dare you to ask yourself with innocent wiseness Do you ever listen to silence?