Soul Asylum

Silent Treatment
When the silent treatment gets so loud it's buzzing in my head Your lips are moving, tells I should be somewhere else instead She said she was a mermaid She said she liked horses And then the silence finally breaks You took all you could take There's no one there So you try to minimize it Then you try to compromise it No one really, really, really cares The city streets are filled with sheets of raindrops filled with bile The silence is so deafening it somehow makes me smile Take a chance on tonight She said she was a mermaid She said she liked horses She said she loved unicorns I'd never bet on the dragon When the silence finally breaks You took all you could take No one cares Songtexte Still you try to minimize it Then you try to compromize it No one's really there When the ice melts off the lake and it reflects on what is fake And you're skating somewhere, swimming I was losing every race One stolen moment might turn out right She said she was a mermaid She said she liked horses Never bet on the unicorn Never bet on the dragon When the silence finally breaks You find out just what's fake There's no one there So you try to minimize it Then you try to compromise it No one really cares Aus Songtexte Mania