Silence is, in many ways, the quintessential example of a good song that got sort of lost in the shuffle, and fell between the cracks.
Written in the final months of the LUCK sessions, it was assumed early on, that it would end up on the "next album", and was, in fact unofficially considered an obvious candidate for the Aurora album, when the group decided to work on maven and Aurora at the same time.
By the time the two albums were taking shape, and when the song distribution / running orders were decided upon, for reasons of pace, and possibly even the age of the song (with no recent evolution to it - it had remained as it was originally recorded), despite both members liking the song, it got set aside for "later", again.
What this song DID provide (along with some others), was the support behind the reasoning of assembling this very collection, and remains one of my (Patrick) personal favorites, of our unreleased songs (I love Tina's vocal tone and performance in this song, and always liked the lyrics, and how they described many different kinds of silence), though I do still see how it's downbeat, laid back atmosphere, made it hard to place in the order of the released albums, without dragging the energy or the record down. But regardless, here it is now, on the album of misfit songs.
lyrics
Silence
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Silence
Overflowed by emptiness
In music it rests
Psychological test
Deafening at best
An empty nest
All other senses incensed
An ancient film
- A cup filled to the top with nothing
Without sound -
An absence of mention
The oblivion
Of the forgotten
- The silent masses
An instrument untouched
Awaiting the fatal tone
That will shatter
The silence
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