[Intro]
Crickets in the ditch
Old porch swing still
One light in the kitchen
Whole world stays chill
[Verse 1]
I grew up on rust and rain
Hot beer, cold rage, thick chain
Mama said, "Boy, you'll break that heart"
So I wrapped mine up like barbed wire art
Long nights, wrong fights, steel-toe soul
Every "leave me" just filled that hole
I was stone, I was bone, I was mean, half dead
Just a shadow in a truck with an empty head
[Chorus]
In the quiet, when it’s dark like this
I remember how I never let ‘em get that close
Hard hands, hard eyes, hard fists
But you touched what I never even tried to show
Now the silence don’t feel so cruel
’Cause I’m alone in this room, but I’m thinking of you
In the quiet, when the world turns blue
I was hard as a rock till I broke for you
[Verse 2]
Used to talk to my scars more than friends
Smoked my yesterdays down to the ends
Clock on the wall said run, I stayed
Played tough guy games with my own grenade
You walked in like Sunday sun
Coffee on your breath, said, "You done?"
I laughed, but you read that ache
Pulled my heart out the armor like a rattlesnake
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
When the hum cuts out
And the dark gets loud
All the ghosts crowd in, chanting proud
I hear my old ways scratch the door
But your name hits deep, shakes the floor
[guitar solo]
[dubstep breakdown]
[bass growls under chopped vocal echoes: "quiet... dark... found you..."]
[Chorus]