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Silence (with Cam Gallant)


Lyrics:
 

Ridin’ down the road again today
Just thinking that I don’t know what to say
Cold blues when I think about you
You’re driving us, but I feel I’m in a sad sad song
 
Your fingers are tight around the wheel
I wish that you could feel the way it feels
I don’t know how to act around you
It’s in the past but my mind just won’t let go, now I know
 
Miles roll and I scream in silence
You won’t take your eyes off the road
So apart but we’re here together
Maybe we weren’t meant to last forever
 
Rough roads but I hold on for you
I needed to relinquish the truth
Tomorrow is a brand new day
Gotta make a choice and turn the page
 
Two hours on this country road and
Years pass with every moment
Since my trust in you was stolen
Your words won’t leave my mind
 
I should forgive, let us both move on
But two rights won’t right a wrong
Don’t want to leave, don’t want to stay
And we’re back to this again
 
Miles roll and we scream in silence
You won’t take your eyes off the road
Space between us could go on forever
Maybe we weren’t meant to rise together
 
Rough roads but I hold on for you
But it’s tough to face the truth
Tomorrow is a brand new day
We’re out of time, it’s time to turn the page
 
All these paths ahead, what does the future hold
I can never unhear those words
Our families’ hearts are broken
But maybe it's best to air things out in the open
 
Choking back my tears
What are we if we give up all of those beautiful years
Do I still feel warmth when you call my name?
 
Miles roll and we scream in silence
You won’t take your eyes off the road
Somewhere our lifeline was severed
Maybe we weren’t meant to make it better
 
Rough roads but I hold on for you
And it’s tough to face the truth
Tomorrow is a brand new day
It's time to time to write, it’s time to turn the page
   
Miles roll and we scream in silence
You won’t take your eyes off the road
Can we ever find a place together
Where the doubts won’t haunt forever
 
I’d never leave and I’ll always love you
But I know it’s yours to choose
Tomorrow is a brand new day
We drive on, and I don’t know what to say



Copyright 2020 
Lyrics by Cam Gallant and Kelsey Gallant
Melody by Kelsey Gallant and Cam Gallant

Produced by Cam Gallant at Blobfish Studios

​Check out CamGallant.com for more awesome songs written and produced by Cam!
The Story Behind The Song:

This was another song that Cam assembled the music for, and then I sang a sketch track to (mostly melody with a few sporadic vocals). Cam used my sketch track to start developing the lyrics. Using the premise he came up with, I filled in most of the gaps where he'd gotten stuck. Over the course of the next few nights, we worked together to fill in the leftover gaps. 

​A fun fact about this song: we wrote it in May 2020. Later, I was going through voice recordings on my phone, and I found a recording of a completely different song that had verses the same tune as the first verse of "Silence"! I'd made that recording in March, and never listened to it again until after "Silence" was in its final stages of completion. I'm honestly glad I didn't remember that song, because if I'd known about it it could have interfered with the writing/making of "Silence", and I like "Silence" as is.


The Word file below is an in-progress version of "Silence" while we were writing the lyrics. If my memory serves correctly, the black text was Cam, and the blue text was me filling in the gaps. 
silence__in_progress_.docx
File Size: 35 kb
File Type: docx
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Picture
Cam and me in our studio, June 2020
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