Gareth Jones Songs
Album Six
2. The Silent Room (2:58)
I visited a pub with a friend. The pub was silent and gloomy. A handful of men were drinking beer and
playing pool. There were no women customers. It felt like a form of purgatory.
Play Song
The Silent Room
A silent room
People sitting there alone
Stare in the gloom
The tired lights illuminate
Lonely faces, distant eyes
It is sad
In the silent room
The only sound
A quiet click, a gentle thud
The blue goes down.
Talking is in hushed displays
The end of days, the end of lives
It is sad
In the silent room
We came into that room just to have a pint
Laughing, joking, two good friends sharing time
A splash of colour, sound and light
In the dark, where we start
One girl who serves
It seems to be mainly men
Who swallow pain
From their single jugs and jars
What do they do?
It is sad
In the silent room
And over all
The negativity of sound
The clock is gone
In the silent room there is no clock
Just bodies lost in time
It is sad
In the silent room
Oh God, why is it people still end like this
In a life of solitude and loneliness?
Are the reasons in a mystery?
Don’t let the silent room happen to me
Don’t let the silent room happen to me
Don’t let the silent room happen to me
Don’t let the silent room happen to me
