Lyric

I kept my answers clean

Folded small behind my teeth

You heard the space between

And called it peace

I could have broken there

Right in the open air

But I made my face behave

Like nothing needed saving

You Believed the Quiet

Took my silence as a sign

That I had made it through the night

With nothing left to hide

I stood still enough to pass

For someone doing fine

But calm can be a locked room

With the damage still inside

I watched you turn away

Gentle, certain, almost kind

Like I had closed the door

And meant the line

I wanted one more look

One doubt you never took

But I had trained my voice

To leave you no choice

You trusted what I spared

The words I didn’t use

Mistook the lack of fire

For nothing left to lose

I stayed composed and pale

A picture in a frame

But every untouched sentence

Kept burning just the same

There are rooms inside a person

No one enters by mistake

I left no light beneath the door

Then hated what you didn’t break

I was easier to leave

When I sounded almost healed

When my hands were lying still

And my mouth became a shield

I know I helped you miss it

I know I played my part

But silence is not mercy

When it hardens round the heart