Silenced Hope
Lyrics
As I was contemplating the types of songs I wanted on my sophomore album I thought about different stories I wanted to tell based on my fascinations. I've always been fascinated by the Kennedy assassination and wanted to write a song about it. I completely changed my songwriting process for this one, starting with just the lyrics and writing them on a note on my laptop. I used the thesaurus and rhyming dictionary big time for this song. No handwritten lyrics for this, but you'll love to see how the lyrics evolved from the first draft to the final song.
Silenced Hope Lyrics
The sun shone bright in the D.C. sky
As the rising tensions grew
Lifted into the memories shown
Crowds so eager to take love from you
A normal day like any other
Darling beau close at hand
Elegant dinner to give buffer
To the foes that want you banned
The feast, though, will never happen
But who’s to say why it would be done
The surrounding aegis always dampen
The danger inherent by a hand on a gun
Slowly the wheels turned for miles on end
Each person more enthusiastic than last
Though your words, they wouldn’t commend
Unknowingly they’d soon be in the past
Stunned and in disbelief
This doesn’t happen here we say
One bullet turned you into a pawn
And silenced the hope, that lived day to day
It doesn’t matter though, with one fatal shot
The world stood still in the blink of an eye
Teardrops all fell from the news they got
Asking many questions, but most of all, why?
Although you’re gone our hope remains
Silence doesn’t last forever
Though your words went swiftly by
Now theres millions of people asking why
This is not silenced hope - this is not silenced hope
If your empathy and patience can change one persons mind then there’s that much more love we will find
Original Lyrics
These lyrics were done differently than all the others. I used my notes app and wrote all the lyrics first and added music later.
What do you think?