Silent night, broken night
All is fallen when you take your flight
I found some hate for you
Just for show
You found some love for me
Thinking I'd go
Don't keep me from crying to sleep
Sleep in heavenly peace

Silent night, moonlit night
Nothing's changed
Nothing is right
I should be stronger than weeping alone
You should be weaker than sending me home
I can't stop you fighting to sleep
Sleep in heavenly peace



Lyrics submitted by BlueAndStarry

Track duration: 03:04

"Silent Night" as written by Rupert Christie, Traditional,, Tim Rhys-evans

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    General Comment:"I should be stronger than weeping alone
    you should be weaker than sending me home"
    those lines made love the song.
    Flag natty791on September 14, 2010   Link
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    Song Meaning:Personally I always felt that the lyrics 'You found some love for me thinking I'd go' meant that he was in love with the idea of her leaving. Reading through the comments for this song has made me also think that this song is about a suicide though. It is an extremely desolate but beautiful song.
    Flag iridescentcolourson January 31, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:A bit out of topic but play both 0 and 9 back to back on itunes or windows media player/ whatever, but silent night links so perfectly with 9 crimes, gave me a chill
    Flag centipedeyon October 16, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:"Silent night, broken night
    All is fallen when you take your flight"

    I wait up for him to call me. I wait up all night. I waited up every night for months and he never called me. He broke the night for me, I know when he goes out that I will wait up for him to get home.

    "I found some hate for you
    Just for show
    You found some love for me
    Thinking I'd go"

    So I decided to hate him. I tell him that I hate him, I act like a bitch, I become rare in case it makes his heart grow fonder for me. He thinks I hate him so suddenly he decides that I am his good friend and he likes me. But he thinks it doesn't matter what he says, I am already gone. I never left, I never ever left.

    "Don't keep me from crying to sleep
    Sleep in heavenly peace

    Silent night, moonlit night
    Nothing's changed
    Nothing is right
    I should be stronger than weeping alone
    You should be weaker than sending me home
    I can't stop you fighting to sleep
    Sleep in heavely peace"

    Nothing has changed.....it's still not right. I should never have started running to him when I felt down. I wish he had been weak and kept on having me to stay over, kept on leading me on and giving me little strands of hope....
    Flag noneedtosaygoodbyeon May 17, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:It's funny that the genre this site put Damien Rice under is "unknown"
    And this is the reason.
    A religious song/folk song/Christmas song/pop song, Silent Night in and of itself belongs to more categories than probably any other song. It's such a part of our culture it's a folk song, it's a Christian religious song, so it's religious, it's so inbedded in our consciousness and so well-known it's a pop song, and more than anything it has become a "Christmas" song. (It's funny that songs about Jesus' birth are called Christmas songs but songs about his death and resurrection aren't called 'Easter Songs'... just gospel or christian music)

    And then on top of this, Damien changes the lyrics adding the genres of
    Blues
    Indie
    Rock
    Jazz
    Into the mix, making this version of the song an extreme statement
    That can be Read on Many Many levels.

    His genre really is "unknown" because it seems to be a mixture of ALL genres.
    Flag TheThornBirdson February 08, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I believe 'taking your flight' might be the british/irish expression, meaning to escape. So when he leaves, she falls apart.
    This is my interpretation, from an experience I had less than a week ago.
    I told this girl (name of Lisa, coincidentally) how I felt about her; we talked in her car in front of my house for a good two hours or so. When she finally left, I fell apart (when she took flight). I'm now trying to find something to hate about her to get over it...she said she had feelings for me too, but for X amount of reasons it wouldn't work out. She said she had feelings too, perhaps to try to appease me, thinking I'd leave her alone (you found some love for me thinking I'd go). And then I cried to sleep.
    We were close to begin with, so really, nothing changed...yet it doesn't seem right...I'm all torn up inside...
    Like I said, I cried, and I should be stronger than that. And she literally drove me home (you should be weaker than sending me home).
    And I haven't seen her since, so we haven't really talked...so sleep in heavenly peace...I know I won't for a while.

    Sorry if that was too personal.
    Flag El_Loboon October 03, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I first heard this song last christmas. Me and my partner were going through a very sticky spell. Everything we did we argued. I had my ipod on to fall to sleep with like normal and I woke up and this song was on. It had just started. It was chilling. I was wondering what we had become. We still loved each other but things had changed. So imagine how fitting this song was. Luckily, we managed to sort things out. We had a break for a month, got back together and are now stronger than ever. We love each others company and we gtry to make the most of everything But the song sent chills down my neck and still does. I keep thinking if it wasn't for this song, I wouldhave lost the most important thing in my life
    Flag greatone1987on August 05, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:i love "i found some hate for you just for show"
    She still completely in love with him but puts on a face that she doesn't care anymore and he doesn't matter... So relatable. This is hauntingly beautiful.
    Flag jessposon June 27, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I Think that this song goes with two other songs on the O album, Cheers Darlin' (being the first) Prauge (being in the middle) and this song, Slient Night (being the last or the end). Listen to them in order it's like a story.
    Flag BigBlackShinyShoeson January 15, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I think it's just evidence of his genius to use Silent Night and transform it. And Lisa Hannigan does a hauntingly beautiful job of singing it.
    Flag youreyeson December 12, 2007   Link

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