Quiet Like a Riot

[Verse 1]
I stare at the ceiling
Mouth full of prayers I don't believe
Clock ticks like it’s laughing
At every word you never speak
I built you a kingdom
Out of childhood Sunday flames
Now it’s ash in my hands
And I choke on the taste of your name
[Chorus]
If you're there
Why are you quiet like a riot in my chest?
Tear me apart
Till there's nothing left to bless
I’ve been screaming at the sky
Till my throat runs dry
Still you stay shy
If you're there
Why are you quiet like a riot in my chest?
[Verse 2]
My friends say "have patience"
Like band-aids on a broken spine
They quote all the verses
But they don't have to live in my mind
I sit in the back pew
Heart pounding hard in the dark
Every hymn is a hammer
On the cracks in my faith and my heart
[Chorus]
If you're there
Why are you quiet like a riot in my chest?
Tear me apart
Till there's nothing left to bless
I’ve been screaming at the sky
Till my throat runs dry
Still you stay shy
If you're there
Why are you quiet like a riot in my chest?
[Bridge]
[screamed]
WHERE WERE YOU
WHEN I DROWNED IN THE WATER?
WHERE WERE YOU
WHEN THEY BURIED MY FATHER?
[soaring clean]
I'm still here
With these scars you never claimed
Still here
Daring you to say my name (say my name)
[screamed]
ANSWER ME
OR LEAVE ME ALONE
I’M DONE
PRAYING TO STONE
[Chorus]
If you're there
Why are you quiet like a riot in my chest?
Tear me apart
Till there's nothing left to bless
I’ve been screaming at the sky
Till my hope runs dry
Still you stay shy
If you're there
Come and break this violent silence in my chest (in my chest)
If you're there
If you're there
Why are you quiet like a riot in my chest?

rock, Hard emo rock with male vocals; palm-muted guitars exploding into wide, overdriven choruses. Verses sit on tense, syncopated drums and gritty bass; choruses lift with soaring cleans over octave leads. Screamed call-and-response lines cut through the hooks; bridge drops to near-whisper, then detonates into a wall of sound and gang vocals for the final chorus., wrestling, raw, emo, soaring