So Silent Lyrics

He was down on the floor with his lips to a glass

Said he dreamed of a future that won't come to pass

That he once strived to excel in a world so vast

But why run a race when it's rig and he's fixed in last

Then he mused all of life is a joke and he laughed

That it is what it is and he's thankful for all that he has

I said well let me just pose one question and ask

If you just want what you have, then why are are you sad

If you want to fight

Then why are you running

If everything is fine for you

Why are you stumbling

So silent

She was tripping on something that was laced in her tea

And she was high as a kite when she said she could see

Said we in the land of the free but no freedom grows

And if we in a brave new world where'd the brave all go

I said, hell if I know

Then she told me that the problem is society

Everybody crippled by anxiety

No one is the person that they try to be

Then she said, what we need are a few with a view that can bring a change through

That we need less talk and more do

So I said to her, what about you

If you want to fight

Then why are you running

If everything is fine for you

Why are you stumbling

So silent

I was listening to someone give a speech

Something 'bout the knowledge of enlightenment he reached

And as my eyes glazed over in my seat

He approached and he asked if he could challenge my beliefs

I said by all means have at it

Then he talked about the suffering and source of bad habits

How the emptying of mind is the challenge

And withdrawing from the world is the cure to all sadness

I said that all sounds like madness

Why have a life and then not be alive

Why have a mind and then choose to be blind

What you call wisdom is the fear that you hide

You cannot retreat from those demons inside

This is not peace, it's a mask you adorn

This is not truth, it's a trap, nothing more

And you're too busy running from something you can't ignore

If you want to fight

Then why are you running

If everything is fine for you

Why are you stumbling

So silent