The Go-Go’s, Our Lips Are Sealed

Okay, maybe not literally, but we’re setting up a 19-hole, indoor golf course in the library, so our lips, if not sealed, are at least attached to bodies that are way too busy to say much here today.

This song from 1981 is absolutely impossible for me to hear without seeing scenes from this music video in my head. The two are inseparable for me.

And the lyrics are a damn sight more clever than you might remember. Why are their lips sealed? According to the Go-Go’s, silence is not apathy or evasion. Oh no, silence is a weapon:

There’s a weapon
That we must use
In our defense
Silence

When you look at them
Look right through them
That’s when they’ll disappear
That’s when we’ll be feared

It doesn’t matter what they say
In the jealous games people play
Hey, hey, hey
Our lips are sealed

Man, that’s a weapon that I wish we used more often these days.