You Make It Quiet

Verse 1

I’ve been counting every failure

Like rosary beads beneath my tongue,

Praying to a silence that never answers,

Wondering what I’ve become.

The mirror wears my face like a stranger,

Knows every wound I try to hide,

But then your name moves through the darkness

And something in me comes alive.

Pre-Chorus

You touch the parts of me

That I thought were buried deep enough to die.

Chorus

I’m not a good man, darling,

Just a tired soul learning how to survive.

But you make it easier to be the right man,

Easier to look my demons in the eyes.

When the storm is screaming through my veins,

When the shadows tell me I should run,

You make it quiet.

You make it quiet enough to hear my heart.

Verse 2

There’s a war beneath my ribcage,

Old ghosts sharpening their knives,

Telling me I’ll never be enough

To deserve this kind of life.

But then I feel your hand in mine,

Like sunlight through cathedral glass,

And for a moment all the doubt inside me

Lets the future finally pass.

Pre-Chorus

You see the man I’m trying to be

Before he’s standing in his skin.

Chorus

I’m not a good man, darling,

Just a tired soul learning how to survive.

But you make it easier to be the right man,

Easier to look my demons in the eyes.

When the storm is screaming through my veins,

When the shadows tell me I should run,

You make it quiet.

You make it quiet enough to hear my heart.

Bridge

So if you ever catch me sinking,

If you ever see me fade,

Know I’m fighting every version of myself

That wants to slip away.

Because I want the life we whisper about,

The dogs asleep at our feet,

Your head against my shoulder,

And years that still belong to me.

Outro

I’m still becoming,

Still learning how to carry all this weight.

But every road leads back to you,

Every prayer still speaks your name.

And if love is a reckoning,

Then let it wash over every part of me—

Because I’m not the man I want to be yet,

But you make it easier to believe I can be.