In the Silence

You want a place to settle down But your old heart keeps moving on And somewhere inside you know The reason why you want to go Is the hope your absence makes their hearts grow fond And you bide your time with pretense Dreams of green lawns and a strong fence And you sit there in the silence The sunlight slants a warning call This city makes no sense at all And you can't tell if you came Here for wisdom or for fame So you sit there with your back against the wall And outside are children playing Where the daylight is the only thing And you sit there in the silence And oh, do you dare To head out for the day As the day fades everywhere? And oh, do you dare To climb that hill When, oh, there's too much everywhere? Now your driving past the rows Of all the haunts you used to know And you hold in every breath Think of all the ones you left And wish sometimes the memories would go But you know the night is patient There's time for wondering where the time went As you sit there in the silence