The Day I Got Quiet

You said the day I got quiet was the day I stopped caring

Like love just died somewhere out in the air

But you never saw the miles in the words I spent

All the nights I broke trying to make you understand

I was still talking then… God I was trying

Still explaining, still begging, still fighting

Still putting my heart out where you could see

Even when it felt like you were burying me

Every truth I gave you came back like a knife

Every honest word started another fight

I’d say what I meant, plain and true

But by morning those words belonged to you

Twisted and bent till I barely knew

The things you swore I said to you

And somewhere in all of that shouting and blame

I started forgetting the sound of my name

So when the talking stopped it wasn’t peace

It was a man on his knees in defeat

Every word I had was already gone

Spent trying to prove where my heart belonged

And silence…

God, silence don’t lie or pretend

It don’t turn your truth into something again

Sometimes it’s the only place left you can hide

When the person you love keeps tearing you inside

You probably thought you finally won

When the arguing died and the talking was done

But what really died that night in me

Was the last little hope you’d ever hear me

I learned something cold in the middle of pain

Some hearts just love you through a hurricane

And some only hear what they need to believe

No matter how much of your soul you leave

There’s still a thousand words buried in my chest

But I’d rather choke on them than give you the rest

’Cause every time I tried to open that door

You turned my truth into another war

And a man can only bleed so long

Before silence starts feeling like home

So if you’re wondering why I walked away slow

Why the man who fought hardest finally let go

It wasn’t the anger… it wasn’t the pain

It was the moment I finally knew

No truth in the world could get through to you

And the quiet you hated so much that night

Was the last piece of me

I had left to survive.