Lyrics

We were raised on half a language, taught to trim the feeling out
Fine, good, can't complain - the holy trinity of doubt
Our fathers spoke in weather, in engines and the score
And we grew fluent in the everything they never said out loud

We talk best shoulder to shoulder, never eye to eye
A lake, a fire, a highway - and the words come by and by
It took me half a lifetime to say one sentence true
And the first time that I said it, another man said: brother, me too

We are the sons of the silence
Breaking the quiet a word at a time
Not with a shout, not with sirens
Just one man saying: I'm tired of the climb
One says: I'm scared. One says: I'm grieving
And a hundred frozen winters start to thaw
We are the sons of the silence
And the silence was never the law

There's a brother in the sauna with a grief he never named
There's a brother at the graveside who cannot let his shoulders shake
There's a boy alone in his bedroom learning manhood from a screen
Someone tell him that the strongest men are rivers, not machines

We are the sons of the silence
Breaking the quiet a word at a time
Not with a shout, not with sirens
Just one man saying: I'm tired of the climb
One says: I'm scared. One says: I'm grieving
And a hundred frozen winters start to thaw
We are the sons of the silence
And the silence was never the law

Every word our fathers swallowed, and their fathers, and theirs too
Was a stone laid on the silence - now the water's breaking through
And I forgive them all the quiet, they were handed it as well
They were sons of the silence passing down the only tongue they knew

We are the sons of the silence
And the thaw has finally come
No one melts a winter all alone
And no one has to, anymore
We are the sons of the silence
Learning every word for warm
We are the sons of the silence
And the silence was never the law

Me too, brother
Me too
Say it once and mean it
Me too