The Silence Is Deafening

from Boardwalk Mystic by The Hesh Inc.

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about

Originally a song protesting Billy Joel not saying anything about the oppression of Soviet Jews while on tour in the Soviet Union, since become an admonition to my audience that they must speak up whenever they see an injustice being committed.

Recorded for the album "Uncork the Bottle" by Izzy Kieffer and Friends (released 2017).

lyrics

You took a trip to the other side
of a barrier that nobody sees
Where everyday life is centrally planned
and the people are never at ease
The freedom to believe what they want to believe
it carries a heavy price
And being caught practicing belief
can mean thirty years on ice

Oh how the silence is deafening
Oh how the silence is deafening
Oh where’s your sense of reckoning
Oh how the silence is deafening

You got up onstage before adoring hearts
and in front of official eyes
Playing your heart out to all the kids
the soldiers and the spies
It was the greatest concert of your life
and it was beamed all around the world
But where were you for all those in exile
not a single word
no

Oh how the silence is deafening
Oh how the silence is deafening
Oh your silence is so deafening
Oh how the silence is deafening

You had the chance to make yourself heard
about things that affect us all
To be the voice of the millions of our people
who are up against the wall
They’re your brothers and sisters and your flesh and blood
not only mine
Have you left your roots
behind

Oh how the silence is deafening
Oh how the silence is deafening
Oh how the silence is deafening
Oh how the silence is deafening


© 2015 The Hesh Inc.

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from Boardwalk Mystic, released March 30, 2015
Hesh Meister—piano, lead vocals
Izzy Kieffer—drums, percussion, keyboards, backing vocals
Steve Lopresto—bass, guitar

Recorded/engineered by Mike Ferrara at Fastlane Studios and by Gideon Levine at GYL Studios, Brooklyn, New York.

Repaired, mixed, and mastered by Gideon Levine at GYL Studios, Brooklyn, New York.

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