Give Us a Song
by Matthew Welde
a room of faces you don’t know
a pack of wild dogs they are
they tell you to remove your clothes
or cut them deep enough to scar
can you get inside their head?
will they eat you alive instead?
and feast upon the heart you hid?
now you can’t get no oxygen
everybody’s thinking he's gonna choke
but they want to see you go for broke
and break the silence with a song
come on don’t stay quiet long
they’ve told you that it’s all been said
the melodies have all been sung
so put that old guitar to bed
we’d like to see how fast you run
cause if you ain’t got nothing new to say
then home is where you ought to stay
we’ve heard it all before today
and you just might not make the grade
but if you’d like to roll the dice
we promise you we don’t play nice
so break the silence with a song
come on don’t stay quiet long
they thought that i was playing dead
i could not recall any words
they were all mixed up inside my head
along with all those pretty chords
but will i get another chance
to try and make these people dance?
an epic fail, a short romance
oh will i get another chance?
you’d better get up out of here
they chanted as they spilled the beer
or else break break the silence with a song
come on don’t stay quiet long