Quiet Ones Bloom

Intro

(soft piano and distant sax hum)

They never heard the things

I never said out loud

They saw the silence

But they never saw the clouds

Of dreams above my head

While I stood in the room

They never knew

The quiet ones bloom

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Verse 1

I kept my hair pulled back

Loose shirts and running shoes

They called me different

Like that was something to prove

I moved a little softer

Watched more than I spoke

While everybody laughed loud

I was studying the world

But I had my little circle

Monica, Denise, Kim

Making up dance routines

Like the world was ours to win

Little adventures

Recording dreams in my room

Nobody knew then

The quiet ones bloom

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Pre-Chorus

Mama said

“Girl you got too much fight”

Thought my silence

Meant I’d never shine

But storms grow roses

In hidden rooms

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Chorus

The quiet ones bloom

After the rain is through

After the whispers

Say what you can’t do

I carried the weight

But I carried my truth

I survived the storm

Now look what I grew

The quiet ones bloom

Slow and strong and true

You didn’t see the roots

But they were breaking through

I was misunderstood

But I made it through

The quiet ones bloom

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Verse 2

Eighteen came early

Life knocking at my door

Heartbreak in my suitcase

Learning how to be more

Standing on my own feet

Praying through the night

Finding little pieces

Of courage in the light

They said

“She’ll never make it”

“She’s too quiet to survive”

But God writes stories

In the softest lives

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Pre-Chorus

Every scar

Turned into a seed

Every tear

Grew the strength in me

And beauty grows

In hidden rooms

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Chorus

The quiet ones bloom

After the rain is through

After the whispers

Say what you can’t do

I carried the weight

But I carried my truth

I survived the storm

Now look what I grew

The quiet ones bloom

Slow and strong and true

You didn’t see the roots

But they were breaking through

I was misunderstood

But I made it through

The quiet ones bloom

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Bridge

(music drops to piano and bass)

I used to think

Silence was weakness

Now I know

It was power

Learning to breathe

Before I roared

(saxophone slowly enters)

Every step

Every prayer

Every lonely midnight

Built the woman

Standing here tonight

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Saxophone Solo

(smooth emotional sax melody carrying the chorus theme)

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Final Chorus

The quiet ones bloom

Through the darkest rooms

Through the doubts

Through the wounds

I survived the storm

And I found my truth

The quiet ones bloom

And I’m living proof

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Outro

(soft piano and sax fading)

They misunderstood

The silence in the room

But heaven always knew

The quiet ones bloom