Song of the … everytime. October Project “Wall of Silence”

July 11th, 2010

This has been my second favorite song for at least 15 years. Probably I could assemble a whole playlist of songs about disconnecting from people, because that theme has always loomed large in my mind. But this has to be the most beautiful, and the most representative of how I feel. You have connection and you have disconnection, all in cycle, and it makes you wonder if anything has ever been real. Did it ever really matter, if it doesn’t last? Are things that are temporary worth anything? Isn’t everything temporary?

I saw October Project play live one time, before they disbanded, and I wish you could have been there. They were magical.

October Project – Wall of Silence

I’ve seen that life
Touches us with pain
And we change
Becoming strangers to our friends
Tell me what happens along the way

I thought of us
Hard to talk these days
Did we change?
Or were we strangers all along?
Tell me what caused us to turn away

There’s a wall of silence
Miles across
A wall between us
Holding back
Holding back our loss

I moved ahead
Thinking you’d be there
But it changed
And now we’re strangers to our past
How did I lose you along the way?

I’ve seen that life
Touches us with pain
And we change
Becoming strangers to ourselves
Tell me what happens along the way
How did I lose you along the way?