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Title: “The Quiet”
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[Intro – Whispered falsetto, soft piano]
You never saw me break
You never saw me bend
But I was dying every time
You called me “friend”
[Verse 1 – Soft, smooth]
Your head on my shoulder
Midnight on your skin
I trace every moment
Like I’ve already sinned
You're laughing, and I’m praying
To something I don’t believe
That whatever this is
Will stop haunting me
[Pre-Chorus – Ambient vocal layering]
But I can’t lie to myself anymore
I’ve been holding your ghost in my chest like a war
[Chorus – Soaring, painful, restrained power]
I’ve been falling in the quiet
Where the words can’t make a sound
You’re the silence I could die in
But I can’t let you find out
I’ve been bleeding in the spaces
Where your touch has never been
You’re my favorite kind of aching
That I bury deep within
[Verse 2 – Intimate, dissonant keys]
You talk about lovers
Like I’m not on fire
Like I wouldn’t burn
Just to stand a bit higher
In your light, in your grace
In the places I can't reach
So I swallow every truth
And sing a lie through gritted teeth
[Bridge – Screamed / chaotic crescendo]
WHAT IF I TOLD YOU—
I prayed for the moment you'd look at me twice?
WHAT IF I SHOWED YOU—
The wreck of my heart, would you call it a crime?
YOU WERE MY SHELTER—
And I made you a shrine
Now I’m cursed by the silence
Of what could’ve been mine
[Breakdown – Crushing guitars, stuttered rhythm, growling vocals beneath clean lines]
You don't know
What you've done to me
And you can't know
What I’ll never be
[Final Chorus – Full instrumentation, layered harmonies and raw screams beneath clean vocal]
I’ve been falling in the quiet
Where your shadow calls me home
You’re the answer I keep hiding
In the ache beneath my bones
I would burn it all to tell you
But I’d rather die your friend
Than break the only heaven
That I’ll never touch again
[Outro – Solo piano, fading heartbeat rhythm]
You’ll never know.
And maybe… that’s love.
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[Death scream - I love you!!! ]
