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Swimming with Boys

from The Countdown's Begun by Silence

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It was a lad’s thing
A game where only boys could play
Sometimes it was frightening
But it kept the teenage blues at bay
Muscles flexed in the moonlight
Rival forces geared up for a clash
Missile boys thought it alright
If the world ended in atomic flash
With their minds so filled with void
I always liked swimming with boys
Swimming with boys
War games on the playset
Led to violence in the streets
We were trapped in a mindset
We were soldier dolls fighting in the summer heat
We scoffed at the shark fins
And danced to the sound of animal noise
We swam to the island of twins
And dove head first into the void
In the pools so dark and cold
Like the men who run this world
Swimming with boys
Kindness and nurturing are weakness
Real men swim in the deep end
Real men go off the deep end

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from The Countdown's Begun, released April 20, 2019

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Silence Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Silence fuses overtly political peace punk with darker and more melodic post-punk sounds. The band was formed in Pittsburgh, PA in 2013. They released their debut LP, The Deafening Sound of Absolutely Nothing on Profane Existence Records in 2016.

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