Still Standing, Still Lying

On the other side of the ticket gate, people leave, leaving only smiles behind.
The words that could not be spoken have nowhere to go, and they quietly pile up on your back.
Pretending to be strong was armor to protect you.
But at the same time, it was a mask that pushed the people you care about most away.

The weaknesses you hid beneath the whiteness of the snow.
Days spent pretending that you could not break, nursing the lie that "it's okay."
The moment you realized you could never return to the distance where you felt you could embrace someone if you turned around,
the world quietly fell silent.

This story is about the kind of "kindness" you only understand after you've lost something.
The memory of a long winter, until you realized that the strength you chose to avoid being hurt
was actually hurting someone.

Eventually, the pretense melts, the lies turn to powder snow,
and only the words that could not be spoken slowly unravel into the sky.
But even so, people move forward.
From the moment you decided to "hide no more."

A love story set on a snowy day, where sadness and serenity intersect.
Every time I listen to this song, the words I couldn't say come back to me.