Silence

"Silence" is a song by Canadian electronic music group Delerium. The song was co-written by Canadian singer Sarah McLachlan, and she is featured as vocalist on the track. The song is often credited to be one of the best trance songs of all time,[1] still playing in many clubs to this day. The original album version and subsequent radio edit of the song had a much slower tempo than the more well-known remixes and was essentially structured like a pop song, with the characteristic synthetic instrumentation of the more melodic side of ambient music — though including darker overtones, such as the prominently featured Gregorian chants. This last element often invites comparison to popular ambient/new age/world music projects of the 1990s like Enigma and Deep Forest who routinely sample chants from various ethnicities worldwide, though in contrast such vocals featured on Karma were all original recordings.[2] Although the original song did receive Canadian radio airplay in 1997, it was not released as a single until 1999, two years after the release of Karma, though it was only the Airscape Remix which received airplay at this time, rather than the more downtempo original version. The single prominently included remixes by DJ Tiësto, and Fade, which significantly boosted the song's proliferation through club play (particularly by influential DJs such as Paul Oakenfold) as evidenced by the single's positions on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts. As a consequence, the song was largely promoted as an uptempo vocal trance song, which then influenced the marketing of the next several Delerium singles as well. Unlike most of its successors, however, "Silence" also broke into the adult top 40 radio format due to the song's club success,[3] and through radio airplay the original version received mainstream awareness relatively greater than the remixes among club patrons. The accompanying music video, directed by the directors collective Twobigeyes, was released in 2000 and was set to the Airscape remix. It has repeatedly been listed within the top 100 Ibiza anthems ever on online messageboards and, more recently, on MTV. The video was filmed on location in Pembrokeshire, Wales UK. The main locations are Newgale Beach, and "The Blue Lagoon" in Aberiddy. "Silence" was the opening track on the 1999 Brokedown Palace soundtrack. The Airscape Remix was featured in Dance Dance Revolution: EXTREME2

[Male Gregorian Chant in Latin] Sanctus… {Holy} Exaudi orationem meam {Hear My Prayer} Ad te omnis… {To you all} Gloria in excelsis Deo {Glory to God in the highest} Gloria in excelsis Deo Ad te omnis caro ?veniet? {to you all flesh will come} [Female Gregorian chant starts] Et In Terra Pax Hominibus {Peace on earth to all mankind} Et In Terra Pax Hominibus Et In Terra Pax Hominibus Et In Terra Pax Hominibus [Male Gregorian Chant] Gloria in excelsis Deo… {Glory to God in the highest} Gloria in excelsis Deo… [Sara Mclachlan] Give me release, witness me I am outside, give me peace Heaven holds a sense of wonder, and I wanted to believe That I'd get caught up when the rage in me subsides Passion chokes the flower, 'till she cries no more Possessing all the beauty, hungry still for more Heaven holds a sense of wonder, and I wanted to believe That I'd get caught up when the rage in me subsides In this white wave I am sinking, in this silence In this white wave, in this silence, I believe [Male Gregorian Chant] Gloria in excelsis Deo… {Glory to God in the highest} Gloria in excelsis Deo… I can't help this longing comfort me I can't hold it all in, if you won't let me Heaven holds a sense of wonder, and I wanted to believe That I'd get caught up when the rage in me subsides In this white wave I am sinking, in this silence In this white wave, In this silence, I believe I have seen you in this white wave you are silent You are breathing, in this white wave I am free