“Silence in Her Arms” – A Closeness Where Words Get in the Way

After the poison of “Blinding Love” comes silence. The third track on the record is the quietest in words — literally.

“Silence in Her Arms” is a closeness in which words do not help; they only get in the way.

The first line: “Her touch is the silence, where words lose their weight.”

“Silence” appears fourteen times here, “silent” six. More than in any other track on the record. “Words” appears seven times, almost always as something that is not needed.

The second verse says it outright: “Words are just shadows, that obscure what we feel.”

It is the only track on the record whose verses have four lines each. All the others have six.

Here the form does the same thing as the lyric. A song about words being unnecessary uses fewer of them than the rest.

The third verse closes that thought: “Words would only shatter, this fragile peace we share.”

The word from the previous track returns in the chorus: “Silence in her arms… blinds me to the world…” And further on: “In this blinding love… we’re forever free…”

In “Blinding Love” being blinded meant poison. Here it means the opposite: the world disappears because it is not needed, not because someone took it away.

Only these two tracks on the record use the word “blinding.” They stand side by side and show the same word from two sides.

In the first two tracks not a single “we” appears. There was “I,” and there was “she.” Here “we” appears eleven times.

Already in the first verse: “The world fades to nothing, in this quiet we find.”

And the outro that rounds it off: “In her arms we are home…” “Mystery” ended on “I’ve found my home…” Here the home is already shared — the first on the record that belongs to two people, not to one.

You can hear the track on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music.

In the next post I will write about “Lead Me to Her” — about a plea addressed to someone you do not believe in.

Thank you for being here.

Adam Smentoch Creator of the Dust Anthem project