Footloose - Learning To Be Silent (Key: OR Abmaj)

Title: Learning To Be Silent
Format: MP3 Backing Track - Instrumental - Karaoke
Created in the style of: Footloose
Genre: Movie, Musical & Soundtrack
Language: English
Era: 2000s; 2010s
Key: OR Abmaj
Backing vocals: No
More info: This version is featured on The Original Broadway Cast Recording of Footloose: The Musical.
Lyrics: Yes
 
VI
Swallowing my words
Staring at the floor
Counting little cracks in the tile
Struggling to smile without choking
Learning to be silent
 
ETHEL
Watching how the dust
Dances out the door
Noticing my hands start to shake
Contemplating taking up smoking
Learning to be silent
 
VI & ETHEL
Always hearing
 
ETHEL
"Hush, Ethel!"
 
VI
"Please, Vi!"
 
VI & ETHEL
"Let's not have this conversation"
 
ETHEL
And so I stand by
While my mind takes a small vacation
 
VI & ETHEL
La la la la la la la la
 
VI
Making little sounds
Other folks ignore
 
ETHEL
Quieting the beat of my heart
Never being part of the moment
 
Vi & Ethel
Learning to be silent
 
VI
Learning there are some topics that we don't even mention
 
ETHEL
And if they come up, then we try to be vague
 
VI
There are subjects from which we divert all attention
 
ETHEL
And some we avoid like the plague
 
VI & ETHEL
I'm
Becoming a mime
 
VI
Biting my tongue
 
ETHEL
Biding my time
 
VI
Trying not to scream
 
ETHEL
Managed it before
 
VI & ETHEL
Knowing if I'm going to survive
Then, dammit
 
ETHEL
I've got to practice
 
VI
Practice
 
VI & ETHEL
Learning hmm hmm hmm
 
Composer: TOM SNOW/DEAN PITCHFORD