Where Silence Does Pay

Just because their autocratic government do not like what they have to say
There are decent men and women in prison today
Where free speech it is muzzled no respect for human life
Murder, imprisonment and oppression in such Countries are rife

Where silence is your best chance of staying out of jail
To serve the oppressors rule by fear never fail
To keep your silence it may serve you well
It may keep you out of a dark prison cell

In some Countries where Regimes rule by fear
The fear of death, injury or imprisonment to you is ever near
Where those with the courage to speak out do seal their own fate
This is what always happen when criminals run the State

To speak against the Regime in some countries the price huge to pay
Where silence in public for you seems a much safer way
For to avoid death or persecution or serving prison time
Though to speak out against oppression should never be a crime.