The End Of Silence

Have you ever stood in the darkness of night

Screaming silently you're  a man?

Have you ever hoped that a time would come?

When your voice could be heard in a noon-day sun?

Have you waited so long till your unheard song

Has stripped away your very soul?

Well then, believe it, my friend

That this silence can end

We'll just have to get guns and be men

Has a cry to live when your brain is dead

Made your body tremble so?

And have unseen chains of too many years

Hurt you so bad till you can't shed tears?

Have so many vows from so many mouths

Made you know that words are just words?

Well then, believe it, my friend

That this silence can end

We'll just have to get guns and be men

You know that dignity, not just equality

Is what makes a man a man

And so you laugh at laws passed by a silly lot

That tell you to give thanks for what you've already got

And ya can't go on with this time-worn song

That just wont' change the way you feel

Well, you believe it my friend

That this silence can end

We'll just have to get guns and be men

You don't want to think, you just want to drink

Both the sweet wine and the gall

You been burning inside for so long while

Till your old time grin is now a crazed man's smile

And the goal's so clear and the time so near

You'll make it or you'll break the plow

Well then, believe it, my friend

That this silence can end

We'll just have to get guns and be men

Yes, it's time you know who you really are

And not try whitewash the truth

You're a man, you see, and a man must be

Whatever he'll be or he won't be free

If he's bound up tight, he'll hold back the night

And there won't be no light for day

So you believe it, my friend

That this silence can end

We'll just have to get guns and be men