When the Silence Falls - Janis Ian

What you gonna do when the silence falls

What you gonna do when the silence falls

Dance alone to the radio

All dressed up and no place to go

What you gonna do when the silence falls?

What you gonna do when the silence calls your name

What you gonna do when the silence calls your name

Make your speeches to the wind

Count the votes that might have been

What you gonna do when the silence falls?

See that cloud in the eastern sky

See that cloud in the eastern sky

Brighter than the brightest pearl

Big enough to eat this world

What you gonna do when the well runs dry?

I dreamed the sky was falling

I heard the planets end

I heard the voices calling

«Never again, never again»

What you gonna do

What you gonna do

What you gonna do when the silence falls

And you can’t even hear God call

When the silence falls