Silencing Sound (The Town)

I can’t take this feeling
Can’t be back in this place
This town nearly killed me
And it knows how I taste
This place was my hell
The last time I was here
I swear it tried to cave in
With a silencing fear

The trees never grow
And the grey floods around
As depression is sown
In this shell of a town

The roads twist and bend
Like a web made of lies
To a central end
That will swallow your life

I can’t walk these streets
And I can’t breathe the air
It was never my home
And I’ll never be theirs
Never safe in these walls
Never free in this town
To live life as I am
In the silencing sound

The flowers won’t bloom
But it rains every day
In a town turned to tomb
Where all the colours turn grey

Don’t ask me why
Why the sun never shines
And don’t ask me why
Why they’re blinded by lines

All the streets that I knew
Are still shadowed in doubt
In the town where I grew
Where I grew to get out

I wasn’t made for this place
I wasn’t made for these years
Fighting wars I can’t face
Growing crippled by fear
It was never my home
Just a town hollowed out
Of the love that I seek
In the silencing sound

Don’t ask me why
Why the town smells of death
And don’t ask me why
Why I ran, why I left