The Quietude

Perhaps you are seeking quietude – a few moments of silence. Let The Manhattan Transfer’s early-90’s song The Quietude help you describe what you seek. They created it before social media, 24-hour news cycles, or computers in pockets; and yet it persists as a description of the busyness of the world and the quiet we desire.

In state of constant commotion
Full of rage and heartless devotion
There’s a need that burns within to
Fly away, just fly away.

[…]

Dawn breaks, day descends
With a calming attitude
Shadows fall and bend
Welcome in the quietude.