歌曲名 Two Sides Of Silence

歌手名 Linton Kwesi Johnson

作词：Linton Kwesi Johnson

作曲：Linton Kwesi Johnson

To us

Who were of necessary birth

For the earths hard and thankless toil

Silence has no meaning

There is never a feeling of tranquility

Or mere quietness

Never a moment of soundless calm

From within or without our troubled selves

How can the clamor of sounds be stilled

There is no void where noises can collect and made mute

Pure silent space

How indeed

Can there be silence

When our hearts beat out a sonorous beat

Meeting the beating drums of an african past

When our eyes shed solid tears of iron blood

That falls on concrete ground

Inside our ears are the many wailing cries of misery

Inside our bodies the internal bleeding of volcanoes

Inside our heads

Wrapped in thoughts of rebellion

How can there be calm

When the storm is yet to come

This unending silence

Taut impervious unbending

Not lending an ear to the most delicate sounds

Awaits the blast of bombs

Which man will explode

To break this silent bond

Returment there fate

To the use to create

Hills of soft obedience

Where sweet clothed sounds can rebound

And their echoes glide

Like a carefree bird

In rhythmic calm

To a mellow

Pure silent space