Silence

"Silence"
Single by Essenger featuring The Midnight
from the album After Dark
Released	February 28, 2024 (2024-02-28)
Length	4:03
Label	FiXT
Songwriter(s)	Jeffrey Blake Simpson Tim McEwan Tyler Lyle
Producer(s)	Essenger Tim McEwan

Silence is a song by Essenger featuring The Midnight. The song was originally planned for inclusion on Essenger's 2020 album After Dark but did not make the final tracklist. Silence was first made available on the vinyl deluxe edition of After Dark in early February 2024 before getting released to all platforms on February 28, 2024.

The song was written by Jeffrey Blake Simpson, Tim McEwan, Tyler Lyle, and produced by Simpson and McEwan. It has a running time of four minutes and three seconds and is in the key of E-flat minor. This is the second time that Essenger and The Midnight have collaborated - Essenger co-produced four tracks on Horror Show in 2020.

Lyrics

(Nothing but silence)

Late at night had a sinking feeling
That you were right sayin' I'm not seeing
All the lies that I made myself believe
That seemed to divide us

Once in my life moving on towards something
I realized it was all for nothing
Wonder why every good thing has to end
In nothing but silence

I'm trying but I can't find
A way to let you know that
I'm dying on the inside
The feeling sets in in the silence

In the silence
In the silence
In the silence
(In the silence)

Pressing through the paradoxes
One door opens, another locks it
Shrinking walls of freedom's fantasies (fantasies)

My gravity spins off its axis
Fever dream phantoms of your absence
Fading frames to cold geometry (geometry)

I'm trying but I can't find
A way to let you know that
I'm dying on the inside
The feeling sets in in this silence

In the silence
In the silence
In the silence
(In the silence)

The feeling sets in in the silence

Official versions

Silence

from Silence (feat. The Midnight) [Single]

Silence (Instrumental)

from Silence (feat. The Midnight) [Single]