Manchester Orchestra - The Silence Lyrics

The Silence from 2017 album - A Black Mile to the Surface.

[Radtastical]

After battling addiction and alcoholism for 7 years, I got help and I got clean for 8 months now. Today I got to see my son for the first time in 6 years. This song is all I can think of when he's on my mind now. Change is possible.

[BladeMaster]

Buried most of my family before 18, struggled with depression, which led to heavy drug use, heart shattered time and time again, always alone in life. Music like this helps harden my resolve, to push every day to make a better life than yesterday. 6 years sober, own my own land. Don't give up ladies and gents. Forge your way through this cold, hard world.

[josephdorino]

Strange how we can be silent to the ones we want to talk to the most .

[GAPPanese]

The last 1, 000 views have been me. I've been playing this song non-stop for 2 weeks.
Thank you

[SDouglasSmith]

Too few songs like this that reach right into you even before you know what the words are....Fantastic.

[cjohn]

Truly touched my cold heart.. I haven’t cried in a very long time, honestly didn’t think I could anymore 😢 thank you for reminding me that I’m still human

[Willflores]

Little girl you are cursed by my ancestry, there is nothing but darkness and agony...Let me walk you as close as a memory, let me hold you above all the misery. Let me open my eyes and be glad that I got here. Most beautiful piece ever. Thank you Andy from keeping me from suicide while mourning my mother’s death I will never let go of this album. Master fuckin peace!

[ajburrows]

The pit in my stomach that I felt the first time I heard this I literally had that spinal sensation. Visceral emotional connection. Come to Houston !!!! These guys are just stellar !

[oliviainglis]

My heart is breaking more than it has before, found this song a month or so ago and im still listening. Good words to say here is dont let the world turn you cold when you keep facing things that try and break you, especially when you know you're such a good person. I so want to be there for someone that is about to face something that ive been through and ive been pushed away. God bless this song and many others like it. Music heals like no other. 🙏🙌🙏🙌

[lightningcass]

Sometimes we need the music, sometimes we need the lyrics... and sometimes we need both. Beautiful ❤

[jaymcintyre]

i lost me 39 brother four weeks ago and this song helps me speak to him - thank you - gerogina

[pascalmoar]

I've just found this band OMG where have I been

[caseycom]

I love the pain within this song, it's beautiful.

[dalerobinson]

One of the most haunting and intense songs I've ever heard I love it

[kennethlame]

It’s absolutely beautiful how you find the absolute perfect song to express your feelings better than any word you can speak

[TheWykkedChick]

This song always moves me to tears and the into this transcendent space. It is beautiful!

[Chrisgateslighters]

This song touches hearts in so many ways what's yours .?? Mine was a love that left

[nasrohabira]

I put on my mask, close my eyes and sleep. I feel like I am in another world, far from this world we live in, where there is hypocrisy, lies, theft and wars. Damn, man is the real destroyer.❤💧

[TheScalpx]

THE STORY OF THE SONG
The last track is called “The Silence.” This song is one of the songs I wrote – popped out of bed at one in the morning – it felt like I kinda had to get this thing down, and really, it’s a prayer to God. It’s God talking to me, God talking to my daughter, and then ultimately at the end, the finale is me praying over my daughter.

That song was there, but without that last minute and a half, two minutes of the song, it doesn’t hold the same weight as it would. Catherine just continued to kind of say, “I don’t feel it yet.” She couldn’t ever give us specifics about what “it” was, but she was just basically like, “I’m not jumping up and down yet, ” which was so wildly frustrating, but she forced us to just keep going and I’m so happy she did, because we ended up getting this crazy outro that then led to this ability for me to have space where I could write this kind of last, final prayer/poem for my daughter to close out the record, and it was sort of this perfect circle to begin the record and end the record with this conversation. It was really great. By the end, by the time it hits you – hopefully it does what we were intending, which was, ya know, it knocks you, knocks your face off.

[scottlapier]

This song has been on my radar for 2 years (introduced by a girl i had a fling with....but thats another story). In that time i had to turn around and rebuild my entire life. And its lead me to some dark places and powerful realization about abuse and how abusive tendencies run in my family.

That line "little girl you are cursed by my ancestry" smacked me in the face and i realized that i can't continue that attitude in my new life. Despite how much ive healed, i have more to go...and i keep a lot more of my thoughts to myself.