[Verse 1]
I hear your footsteps stop outside my door
Like you’re waiting for a war that isn’t there anymore
Another letter, another name to sign
Another guilty verdict for another peaceful night
The TV hums just loud enough to drown
The weight of living in this empty town
You say these walls are shaking to the core
But they’re standing like they always stood before
[Pre-Chorus]
You don’t hear me…
You hear the story that you tell yourself.
You don’t see me…
You see somebody else.
[Chorus]
You’ll always hear the sound you chose
Long before you hear the truth I know
If every whisper sounds like thunder
Then every silence pulls you under
I’m not the shadow on your wall
I’m not the reason that you lost it all
You built a stranger out of fear…
Then blamed me for being here.
[Verse 2]
Three conversations, maybe less than that
A smile in the hallway and a tip of my hat
Never slammed a door, never raised my voice
Still somehow I became your favorite noise
Maybe every creak reminds you of the past
Maybe every heartbeat’s beating much too fast
Maybe I’m just standing where your ghosts still roam
And you mistake my apartment for your own
[Pre-Chorus]
You don’t hear me…
You hear echoes that nobody made.
You don’t know me…
You just need someone to blame.
[Chorus]
You’ll always hear the sound you chose
A thousand lies beneath my floorboards
You call it chaos, I call it breathing
You call it guilt, I call it leaving
No matter how quiet I become
You’ll still believe I’ve got a smoking gun
You built a stranger out of fear…
Then blamed me for being here.
[Bridge]
How do you argue with a mind already made?
How do you outrun someone else’s yesterday?
I could tear the speakers from the walls.
Walk barefoot through these empty halls.
Hold my breath until my lungs turn blue.
You’d still hear…
You’d still hear…
You’d still hear what you wanted to.
[Final Chorus]
You’ll always hear the sound you chose
Before a single note has ever shown
I’m just another face you never knew
Trying to survive the version made by you
These paper walls were never thin
The distance has always lived within
If I’m the villain in your head
Nothing I can do will raise the dead
So write another complaint tonight.
Tell another story that feels right.
But somewhere underneath it all…
The loudest thing between these walls…
Was never me.
It was you.
[Outro]
Your silence…
Was louder than my voice.
Your fear…
Made all the noise.
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