When Things Get Silent

I'm not totally sure, but this could be the oldest of the songs in this collection (2005/2006ish).  Hope in the midst of despair.  I recorded this in my basement apartment in 2007ish.

"When Things Get Silent"

Instrumentation: guitar, mandolin

And when things get silent

You face what you knew all along

And the old truth hits you all violent

And you're singing the same old song

Do you remember the tune

We used to sing so proud

That light in your eye as bright as a new moon

Now shaded by time's shroud

And when things get dark

You start groping around

Searching for the tiniest spark

The faintest, familiar sound

Do you remember the sight 

Of my face

On that crisp October night

That I've tried to erase

In the stillest silence

We hear a heart that still fights

Only in the deepest darkness

Do we notice the faintest of lights

And when you can't feel nothing

But the cold air on your skin

And the leaves on the trees keep falling

Just like the shape that you're in

Do you remember the feeling

Of standing so tall

But time, like a thief, loves stealing

The present's victory call

In the stillest silence...