I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen. Ken Kesey
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The song, “I Been Silent So Long” by John Fahey. The song is about Fahey’s recovery from several debilitating illnesses that he had during his early years. Fahey says, “This song is about my recovery. It’s the first thing I wrote after I got out of hospital, and it still sounds very much like a cockeyed blues to me.” In this song, the person telling the story seems to be ranting and raving on a very personal level.

He describes himself as being too tired from all of his illnesses to talk at length with another person after all of these years. However, he tells of a time in which he was not screaming or raving but rather remembering a time in which he went on a long walk and was thinking of what he had been going through. It is clear from his description that he has been silent for a very long time and it feels good to be able to speak again.

He believes the story that he tells must have happened because it sounds so familiar that it must have really happened even if his memory of it is wrong or incomplete.

Source: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

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