[Verse 1]
The Romans had a word they'd drop
Before the thing they knew you knew —
Scilicet — "it goes without saying"
So of course they'd say it too.
Two thousand years, the letters slurred,
The schoolboys wore their license out —
I'll take the c and let it go,
And spell it like I hear it in my mouth.
[Pre-Chorus]
[cello enters low beneath the last line]
They said we couldn't mean things now,
Said the wound of irony was too wide —
[Chorus]
Silaset, silaset —
The obvious, said anyway.
Silaset, silaset —
I love you. This matters. Stay.
[Verse 2]
I've been through every doubt they stacked,
Clocked the posture of the knowing smirk.
But the joke wore thin and the meaning didn't —
It just kept showing up for work.
So I'll quest after meaning,
I'll laugh at my own immateriality,
Stand here stupid as a lit lamp
In a room that's already bright.
[Chorus]
Silaset, silaset —
The obvious, said anyway.
Silaset, silaset —
I love you. This matters. Stay.
[Bridge]
[strings swell, guitar drops to sparse]
Take the k out of knight,
Take the b out of doubt,
Take the c out of scilicet,
Let the sound carry out.
The spelling was a chain we wore,
The silent letters a kind of shame —
Say it like you mean it now,
Give the obvious a name.
[Final Chorus]
[full arrangement, still unhurried]
Silaset, silaset —
Even knowing what we know.
Silaset, silaset —
Here's the thing we always knew.
Silaset, silaset —
I love you. This matters. Stay.
[Outro]
[voice alone, guitar returns soft, cello holds a drone]
Silaset.
Silaset.
(It goes without saying —)
Silaset.
[Fade Out]