Surviving On Silence

Verse 1 — Rap

If it ain’t you, I don’t want the morning.

If it ain’t you, I don’t want the night.

Surviving on silence,

trying to make this wrong feel right.

If it ain’t you, I don’t want nobody.

If it ain’t you, I don’t want something new.

Surviving on silence,

losing pieces of me waiting on pieces of you.

You can scroll, like, heart, and comment on posts,

while I’m waiting on the call I needed most.

Left my texts unread, but your thumbs still move,

got time for the timeline, just no time for me and you.

Pre-Chorus

You keep saying “hold on,”

but you’re teaching me to wait.

Leaving me on pause

while my heart starts to break.

I don’t need a promise,

I just need you.

Don’t tell me to hold on

if you don’t follow through.

Chorus — Sung

Surviving on silence,

surviving alone,

loving you out loud

while you leave me on hold.

You say you’ll be right back,

but you disappear just like that.

Got me holding onto “hold on”

like you’re really coming back.

I don’t need perfect,

I just need you.

But don’t tell me to hold on

if you don’t follow through.

Verse 2 — Rap

I started losing myself in you,

checking my phone like it knew the truth.

Counting the minutes between your replies,

trying to find love in your silent goodbyes.

I had a life before you came,

but somehow everything changed.

I kept making room for you,

while I disappeared from your view.

Got my emotions in a blender,

spinning love with pain.

One sip tastes like forever,

next one tastes like shame.

Bridge — Powerful

I can’t keep dying in the quiet,

waiting on a sound.

I can’t keep calling this love

if it keeps breaking me down.

I don’t wanna walk away,

can’t keep tugging this rope.

I can’t keep starving

on a someday and a hope.

If you love me, say something.

If you want me, move.

Don’t tell me to hold on

if you don’t follow through.

Final Chorus

Surviving on silence,

surviving alone,

loving you out loud

while you leave me on hold.

You say you’ll be right back,

but you disappear just like that.

Got me holding onto “hold on”

like you’re really coming back.

I don’t need perfect,

I just need you.

But don’t tell me to hold on

if you don’t follow through.

Outro

Surviving on silence,

surviving alone.

Loving you out loud…

while you leave me on hold.