🔇Silence Is Violence / Prison of Silence

Silence Is Violence / Prison of Silence - Why these two songs belong together!

I didn’t plan to release two protest songs side by side. One would have been enough — emotionally, artistically, mentally.

But some moments don’t allow distance.

Prison of Silence and Silence Is Violence were written close to each other because they come from the same place: watching people suffer, watching the world know about it, and watching far too many powerful voices choose quiet instead.

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Prison of Silence — when an ENTIRE nation is locked away

Prison of Silence is rooted in Iran.

It is about people being silenced, punished, imprisoned, and killed for demanding dignity and basic rights. It is about women, men, and children who are locked away not only by force, but by indifference.

The song speaks about:

• millions of lives reduced to headlines

• voices erased behind walls and fear

• a world that “watches” without acting

The silence surrounding Iran is not empty.
It is heavy.
It presses down on those already trapped.

That is why the imagery and the words in Prison of Silence are restrained and human. This song is not about spectacle. It is about dignity — and about what happens when dignity is denied while others look away.

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Silence Is Violence — when silence becomes a decision

Silence Is Violence is louder, faster, angrier.

It was written out of frustration — not only with governments and institutions, but with public figures, celebrities, and influencers who have enormous reach and choose not to use it.

Only a few have spoken up for Iran.

Most have not.

This song exists because silence is often framed as neutrality, caution, or strategy. But silence has consequences. Silence delays. Silence protects power.

That is why Silence Is Violence uses repetition, multiple languages, and urgency. It doesn’t explain — it insists. It doesn’t ask — it demands.

The message is simple because it has to be:
Silence is not passive. Silence is a form of violence.

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Two songs, one truth

Although one song is rooted in Iran and the other speaks globally, they are inseparable.

• Prison of Silence shows what silence does to people

• Silence Is Violence confronts those who remain quiet

One is the testimony. The other is the accusation.

Together, they ask a question that has no comfortable answer:
What does it mean to stay silent when you know?

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This is not about perfection — it’s about responsibility

These songs are not written from a place of moral superiority.
They are written from discomfort.

Art cannot fix injustice.
But silence allows it to continue.

Using a voice — imperfectly, emotionally, openly — is not heroic.
It is the minimum.

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Now

Both songs end where they began: with urgency.

Not tomorrow.
Not next week.
Not after another statement, another delay, another distraction.

Now.

Because history does not only remember what was done —
it remembers who stayed silent.