Break The Silence
Beyond The Black · Break the Silence
In grief of what's to come
You've left the world for years now
You seem already gone
Speak a word for once
One word for me to remember
You've dug yourself a grave there
And lie with open eyes
Embracing what you fear most
And leaving me behind
Like you've made a choice
You chose to simply surrender
It's time to break the silence
It's time to break the silence
It's time
It's time to break the silence
Speak up, say it loud
Your time's running out
It's time to break the silence
There's no way to know
The place you will go
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
It's time to break the silence
You think that you're avoiding
To face the dark you fear
Those thoughts that you don't speak of
They're all that's left in here
Scream and shout for once
Scream out the evil you're facing
Tell me what you're afraid of
I'm here, it's not to late
But every day we're wasting
Could be your last awake
It's a curse you chose
Speak up, I feel how you're aching
It's time to break the silence
It's time to break the silence
It's time
It's time to break the silence
Speak up, say it loud
Your time's running out
It's time to break the silence
There's no way to know
The place you will go
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
It's time to break the silence
It's time to break the silence
Speak up, say it loud
Your time's running out
It's time to break the silence
There's no way to know
The place you will go
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
It's time to break the silence
Break The Silence
The title sounds like a command, but this song is more pleading than triumphant. The speaker is addressing someone whose withdrawal has become frightening: a person who seems to have left the world while still physically present, whose unspoken thoughts have taken over the room. The refrain’s repetition mimics the persistence of someone trying to reach across that distance. It is not a clean declaration that everything will be all right; the lyric explicitly admits there is no way to know what comes next. What it can offer is a voice refusing to abandon the conversation.
That distinction gives the song its emotional weight. A careless anthem might make recovery sound like a decision the suffering person can simply make. Here, the appeal is smaller and more relational: tell me what you fear; let me remember one word; let me be here before another day disappears. The speaker’s alarm is evident, but the lyric tries to convert alarm into attention rather than control. The silence is an obstacle, not a villain, and the person behind it remains more important than the drama surrounding them.
The song appears in Beyond the Black’s self-titled *Break the Silence* release, which received album-level discussion from metal outlets including Angry Metal Guy and Dead Rhetoric. That coverage offers context for the record, not proof of consensus about this particular song. Its own most persuasive gesture is the chorus’s insistence that communication is still possible, even when certainty is not. The repeated plea does not resolve the crisis; it keeps a place open for the answer.