hello again silence my new friend
your a cruel means to an end
to she and I along a long long path
a walk that gives the memories wrath

every call she doesn't make
I feel the crushing weight begin to take
another inch I haven't got to give
it makes my skin no good place to live

there's a suffocating absence of life
as I lose the one they call my wife

every word she doesn't speak
is another lesson that you teach
how words mean so much, meant when said
even so much more when they go unsaid
and you laugh at the tears of a fool on his course
and you reach endlessly with no remorse
and you mock and you make it true
that the heartbroken is the one married now to you

teacher teacher hard as stone
you leave me waiting by a phone
and every letter that she doesn't write
is another long, lonely, longing, restless night

sometimes I kneel, lowly, and pray
ask for communication to come today
but you absorb my cries and pleas
I'm alone again with you, on my knees

you're a suffocating absence of life
taking from me the one they call my wife

silence silence my new friend
you are a cruel means to an end