Story Behind The Song

Woman in a bar reflected in the mirrors on the wall. Her pain is visible. I walk in the bar. I see the reflections bouncing off each other around the room I know her story I write the song from my observation and her head

Song Description

Abusive Love now dead and gone. Still aching like a lost limb

Lyrics

SILENCE LOUDER THAN SCREAMS
by Carol Lester

I saw the pain in your red white and blue
Eyes met across the room
You were sinking back in your black leather chair
Mirrored walls reflected you
Everywhere

Red, puffy eyed angry color
of my true love's words
White, like the death of our
fantasy family world
Blue, we used to love to look in each other's
clear blue eyes
Nor they're streaming from the ashes of
our white hot lies

(chorus)
What can you do?
When you love the one you hate
Where can you turn?
When you've been speeding headlong
down an unlit highway
Are there survivors?
We can rip from the wreckage of our pain
What's left to say?
When our SILENCE IS LOUDER THAN OUR SCREAMS

Red, your warm arms pulsing on my naked breasts
White flashing headlights on the barren walls
above our empty bed
Blue, still waters run deep in your tired eyes
Now we're sinking to the bottom
of our thickening lies

(chorus)
What can you do?
When you love the one you hate
Where can you turn?
When you've been speeding headlong
down an unlit highway
Are there survivors?
We can rip from the wreckage of our pain
What's left to say?
When our SILENCE IS LOUDER THAN OUR SCREAMS

I saw the pain in your red white and blue
Eyes met across the room