Code Of Silence
Billy Joel

Everybody's got a million questions
Everybody wants to know the score
What you went through
It's something you
Should be over now

Everybody wants to hear the secrets
That you never told a soul before
And it's not that strange
Because it wouldn't change
what happened anyhow

But you swore to yourself a long time ago
There were some things that people never needed to know
Guess there's one that you keep
That you bury so deep
No one can tear it out

And you can't talk about it
Because you're following a code of silence
You're never gonna to lose the anger
You just deal with it a different way

And you can't talk about it
And isn't that a kind of madness
To be living by a code of silence
When you've really got a lot to say

You don't want to lose a friendship
There's nothing that you have to hide
And a little dirt
Couldn't hurt no one anyway

And you still have a rage inside you
That you carry with a certain pride
In the only part of the broken heart
That you could ever save

But you've been through it once
You know how it ends
You don't see the point
Of going through it again
And this ain't the place
And this ain't the time
And neither's any other day

So you can't talk about it
Because you're following a code of silence
You're never gonna to lose the anger
You just deal with it a different way

So you can't talk about it
And isn't that a kind of madness
To be living by a code of silence
When you've really got a lot to say

I know you well enough to tell you've got your reasons
That's not the kind of code you're inclined to break
Some things unknown are best left alone forever
And if a vow is what it takes
Haven't you paid for your mistakes

After the moment passes
And the impulse disappears
You can still hold back
Because you don't crack very easily

It's a time honored resolution
Because the danger is always near
It's with you now
But that ain't how it was supposed to be

And it's hard to believe after all these years
That it still gives you pain and it still brings tears
And you feel like a fool
Because it's part of your rules
You've got a memory

But you can't talk about it
Because you're following a code of silence
You're never gonna to lose the anger
You just deal with it a different way

But you can't talk about it
And isn't that a kind of madness
To be living by a code of silence
When you've really got a lot to say


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  52nd Street   A Hard Day's Night   A Hard Day's Night (Live)   A Matter Of Trust   A Minor Variation   A Room of Our Own   Ain't No Crime   Ain't No Crime   Ain’t No Crime   All About Soul   All About Soul (Remix)   All For Leyna   All My Life   All Shook Up   All You Wanna Do Is Dance   Allentown   Always a Woman   Amplifier Fire (Attila)   An Innocent Man   An Innocent Man [Album Version]   And So It Goes   Angry Young Man   Auld Lang Syne   Baby Grand   Baby Grand (Duet With Ray Charles)   Back in the U.S.S.R.   Back In The USSR   Big Man On Mulberry Street   Big Shot   Big Shot (Live)   Billy the Kid   Blonde Over Blue   C'etait Toi   C'etait Toi (you Were The One)   C'etait Toi   Captain Jack   Careless Talk   Carless Talk   Christie Lee   Christie Lee (Unreleased Version)   Christmas In Fallujah   Close To The Borderline   Cross To Bear   Dance to the Music   Don't Ask Me Why   Don't Worry Baby (An All Star Tribute To Brian Wil...   Don't Worry Baby (Live)   Don't Ask Me Why   Don't Worry Baby (An All Star Tribute To Bria...   Don't Worry Baby (Live)   Dont Ask Me Why   Easy Money   Easy Money [Album Version]   Elvis Presley Blvd.   Entertainer   Every Step I Take (Every Move I Make) (The Hassles...   Everybody Has A Dream   Everybody Has a Dream [Stranger Reprise]   Everybody Has a Dream/The Stranger (Reprise)   Everybody Loves You Now   Fallin' Of The Rain   Falling Of The Rain   Famous Last Words   Flip-Flop Girl   For The Longest Time   Get It Right the First Time   Getting Closer   Getting Closer (Unreleased Version)   Goodnight My Angel (lullaby)   Goodnight Saigon   Goodnight Saigon (Live)   Goodnight Siagon   Got To Begin Again   Half A Mile Away   Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas   Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas   He's Always A Woman   Heartbreak Hotel   Hey Girl   Highway 61 Revisited   Honesty   Honesty [Album Version]   Honky Tonk Women   House Of Blue Light   I Don't Want To Be Alone   I Don't Want To Be Alone   I Go To Extremes   I'll Cry Instead   I'll Cry Instead (Live)   I've Loved These Days   I'll Cry Instead   I've Loved These Days   If I Only Had The Words   If I Only Had The Words (to Tell You)   In A Sentimental Mood   Innocent Man   It's Still Rock 'n Roll to Me   It's Still Rock And Roll To Me   It's Still Rock And Roll To Me   It’s Still Rock and Roll To Me   James   Jeans On   Josephine   Just For   Just The Way You Are   Keeping The Face   Keeping The Faith   Last Of The Big Time Spenders   Laura   Leave A Tender Moment Alone   Leningrad   Let It Be   Let Your Heart Show You The Way   Let's Drop The Big One Now   Light As A Breeze   Light As the Breeze   Long Long Time   Los Angelenos   Los Angelenos (Video Version)   Lullaby   Lullabye   Lullabye (Goodnight My Angel)   Lullabye (goodnight, My Angel)   Make You Feel My Love   Matter Of Trust   Miami 2017   Miami 2017 (seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway)   Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway) [L...   Modern Woman   Modern Woman [Album Version]   Money Or Love   Motorcycle Song   Movin Out   Movin' Out   Movin' Out (anthony's Song)   Movin' Out   Mr. Cellophane (Chicago Soundtrack)   Music Source   My Journey's End (The Lost Souls)   My Journey's End (The Lost Souls)   My Life   New Mexico   New York State Of Mind   New York State of Mind [Live]   Night Is Still Young   No Man's Land   No Man's Land   Nobody Knows But Me   Nobody Knows It But Me   Nocturne   Odoya   Only A Man   Only The Good Die Young   Only The Good Die Young (live, 1993-09: Boston, MA...   Only The Good Die Young (Unreleased Version)   Opus 5. 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Why ?   Why Judy Why   Why Judy? Why?   Why Should I Worry   Why Should I Worry?   Why Vienna? (Live)   Worse Comes To Worst   Worst Come to Worst   You Can Make Me Free   You Look So Good To Me   You May Be Right   You Picked A Real Bad Time   You're My Home   You're Only Human   You're Only Human (second Wind)   You've Got Me Hummin'   You've Got Me Hummin' (The Hassles)   You're My Home   You're Only Human (Second Wind)   You've Got Me Hummin'   Youre Only Human   Zanzibar   Zanzibar [Album Version]

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