"There's strength in silence.

Everyone leaves you alone.

I love it."

jw - 092822

Have you ever heard this song. I think it matches the mood of this article

Down to Nowhere

Song by Thea Gilmore

Well I am going down to nowhere

It is not too far from here

And the rain will be running rings

Around this tin fort cavalier

And there are skeletons and wastrels

As far as the eye can see

So if you want me baby

Then know that's where I'll be

Yea I am going down to nowhere

Oh it's child's play

We are turning up our collars

We are hijacking the day

You can tell me about your journeys

You can tell me about your dreams

But nothing comes close

To the nowhere that I've seen

And all you people heading somewhere

Well, you don't know what you're missing

'Cause there's nothing like the freedom

Of a place where no-one listens

La la la da da da...

So I am going down to nowhere

It is steeped in history

This is highrise living

For a joke like me

We are such pretty little failures

On such paved ways with gold

And nobody will think twice

About the nothing that they've sold

Now all you people who are headed somewhere

Well, you don't know what you're missing

'Cause there's nothing like the freedom

Of a place where no-one listens

So I am going down to nowhere

With the dropouts and the bums

I'm a soldier in the vacuum

When the darkness comes

I'm a Vaudeville comedienne

In a theater of bones

And it's a laugh a minute

Where nowhere is your home

La la la da da da...

Songs from the Gutter

The poetry of our times.