The Silence chords by Stephen Duffy, The Lilac Time

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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I  acquired
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knowledge and remained a fool
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And I required her to love
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me in my ignorance
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She found that she could not save time
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So she saved her breath
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And she became the silence in my life
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Verse 2

Was it the fear of god

Or just the fear of fear

That made a habit out of loving

And kept her here

Verse 3
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You can? t turn on the sunshine
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Like you can turn off the light
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So she became the dark
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ness in my life
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Verse 4
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Loves quiet inefficiency ran us down
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Left us like the feel good years
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Left the old boomtown
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I saw the ocean and the sea blue
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sky become one alone
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As  she became the silence in my life
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Verse 5
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I met you where the railway
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lines disappear
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You said you learn to love
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among volunteers
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But love involves conscription,
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sometimes when you? re young
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But now

Verse 6
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we sing between
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the silence in my life
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Sing between the silence in my life
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She became the silence in my life
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