Delerium's "Silence" lyrics explained

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
choke the flower
'til 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

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

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I like how everyone reveals a little secret about themselves when they explain what this song is about whether it's about some experience they have sexual or otherwise, abortion....

but almost everybody missed the point of this since they have no frame of reference of what this song is about.

Here's how I see it:

give me release ("from this pain" was later added in the Oakenfold 2000 mix)
witness me
i am outside

This is not about someone watching someone else experiencing orgasm, no matter how enraptured they seem.

The lyricist is asking for release from the pain of daily life since life is tough for most people especially if they try to be good.

"Witness me, I am outside"

She is proclaiming her faith and before you shut your mind to this explanation, she mentions getting caught up as in Biblical "rapture" referenced by Jesus telling people to go "outside" and leave everything they are doing in order to get caught up in the air where if you go far out in the atmosphere it becomes very silent since sound needs air as a medium to travel in and there is little to no air up there making it silent.

"n 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 "


She is making another statement about her belief here.

"The White wave" is a reference to the righteous who are clothed in "white" as in purity since they have either purity in them or they have been purified

People might mistake this as a racial thing but you need not look with your eyes but your heart and for those who are still clueless

White people are not really white( Most are pinkish or pale in texture)
Black people are not really black( brown texture)

Believe it or not, there are lots of people who are offended with a "Blond blue eyed" Jesus that they refuse to believe based on having been treated badly by people as such just like there are people who will lose their religion when they really see Jesus and he does not look like they expect him to look.

But let's get back on subject here:

Se states that she believes because she has seen the white wave and more important she has seen the one who is breathing( alive/resurrected) and is silent therefore he is in the upper atmosphere with her as they sink back down to Earth in a "white wave" of righteous people.

And that is why in this White wave she is free.

As far as a previous poster's alluding this song to sex and an intense orgasm, you're not really free... since it does not last but for a fleeting moment therefore it is not about an orgasm but something transcendental.

You don't get caught up to Heaven nor would it hold a sense of wonder since you've already previously experienced it if it were an orgasm( Heaven means the actual sky based on ancient Hebrew/Aramaic mentions in the Bible and not some other realm as misconstrued by many including even new testament writers)

"heaven holds a sense of wonder
and i wanted to believe that i'd get caught up
when the rage in me subsides "

Whomever wrote these lyrics has actually had a dream or a vision or imagined the actual "Rapture"

There is also another angle to look at the "white wave" When the sun has a massive solar burst known as the "Carrington Effect" a White Wave of light is actually seen on its surface as it ejects plasma towards the earth.

The lyricist might be referencing the Rapture's happening simultaneously with a White wave of Plasma that burns/severely damages the Earth as mentioned in several prophecies in the old testament referring to the "Day of the Lord".