Too Close to Quiet

Verse 1

I’ve been staying up past sunrise

Talking to the walls again

Got your name in my phone still

But I won’t press send

I tell everyone I’m good now

Yeah, I play it off just right

But it gets a little louder

In the middle of the night

Pre-Chorus

I thought I needed space to breathe

Now I’m choking on the space you left in me

Chorus

It’s getting too close to quiet

I can hear every thought

Every word I never said

Every line that I crossed

I used to run from the silence

Now it’s all that I’ve got

And I’d take all the noise back

If it meant you’d call

It’s getting too close to quiet

Without you at all

Verse 2

There’s a jacket on the chair still

That you never came to claim

I should probably move it somewhere

But I like the pain

I’ve been trying to forget you

In the ways I said I wouldn’t

Yeah, I’m doing everything

That I told you I couldn’t

Pre-Chorus

I thought I’d be better on my own

Now I’m just another echo in this home

Chorus

It’s getting too close to quiet

I can hear every thought

Every word I never said

Every line that I crossed

I used to run from the silence

Now it’s all that I’ve got

And I’d take all the noise back

If it meant you’d call

It’s getting too close to quiet

Without you at all

Bridge (minimal, falsetto + piano)

If I could take it back

I wouldn’t let you go like that

Wouldn’t act like I was fine

Wouldn’t leave you every time

Yeah I thought I had control

But I was just letting go

Of the only thing that felt like home

Final Chorus (bigger, layered vocals)

It’s getting too close to quiet

And I can’t shut it off

Every memory’s a weight

Every second you’re gone

I used to run from the silence

Now it’s all that I’ve got

And I’d give every part of me

Just to hear you talk

It’s getting too close to quiet

Without you at all

Outro (soft, fading)

Yeah, it’s too close to quiet now

And I don’t know how to drown it out