We sat beneath the stars At a fire and played our new guitars And I wondered how long this was gonna last Because picture perfect memories Just come with all those tougher things And pain's the best reminder of your past I watched the meteors fall On a world that hardly cared at all Leaving silver trails of dust across the sky Of indigo blue that matched my mood And with constellations for tattoos And I watched them fade away and quickly die So many theories wrong and soon disproved So many ideas lost among the feud So many conversations that are sadly misconstrued And lost among debate and needless violence We need the silence We walked in a haunted place With tattered walls and empty space And a musty smell that drenched the nighttime air Neither of us said a word And we waited till we heard the birds And realized not once had we ever been scared So many theories wrong and soon disproved So many ideas lost among the feud So many conversations that are sadly misconstrued And lost among debate and needless violence We need the silence I saw my grandpa's mind Fly away and leave some bits behind That made him smile with each time that they appeared I wonder if he feels the pain But it seems he never will complain Whenever his whole family is near So many theories wrong and soon disproved So many ideas lost among the feud So many conversations that are sadly misconstrued And lost among debate and needless violence We need the silence