Lyrics to
Sons Of The Silent Age

This version of Sons Of The Silent Age was released by David Bowie in 1977.

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Sons of the silent age
Stand on platforms
blank looks and note books
Sit in back rows
of city limits
Lay in bed coming
and going on easy terms
Sons of the silent age
Pace their rooms
like a cell’s dimensions
Rise for a year or two
then make war
Search through their one inch thoughts
Then decide it couldn’t be done

Baby, I’ll never let you go
All I see is all I know
Let’s find another way down
(sons of sound and sons of sound)
Baby, baby, I’ll never let you down
I can’t stand another sound
Let’s take another way in
(sons of sound and sons of sound)

Sons of the silent age
Listen to tracks by Sam Therapy
and King Dice
Sons of the silent age
Pick up in bars
and cry only once
Sons of the silent age
Make love only once
but dream and dream
They don’t walk,
they just glide in and out of life
They never die,
they just go to sleep one day

(Sons of sound and sons of sound)
Baby, baby, baby, fire away!

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About Lyrics and Sons Of The Silent Age by David Bowie

The lyrics for Sons Of The Silent Age are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by David Bowie. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Sons Of The Silent Age have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Sons Of The Silent Age - David Bowie and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Sons Of The Silent Age by David Bowie in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Sons Of The Silent Age" means the words set to the music of Sons Of The Silent Age, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by David Bowie. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Sons Of The Silent Age and the lyrics to Sons Of The Silent Age are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of David Bowie who came here looking just for the lyrics to Sons Of The Silent Age, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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