The Loudest Quiet

(Intro)

A room full of people, screens all aglow,
I hear the hum where the honest should go.
No one is cruel just quietly gone,
Like daylight forgetting it owes us a dawn.

(Verse 1)

I used to trust the noise in my chest,
A messy drum that still meant I’m blessed.
Now every truth gets filtered, reframed,
And even our comfort arrives pre-named.
We trade our hours for flickers of light,
Call it a crowd when it isn’t quite.
I try to speak my throat turns to stone,
Like language is something I leased, not owned.

(Pre-Chorus)

And I’m tired of nodding like I agree,
When the mirror won’t even look back at me.
So I breathe in the ache, let it burn into tone
If I’m gonna be heard, I’ll be heard to the bone.

(Chorus)

This is the loudest quiet I’ve ever known,
A million voices and I’m all alone.
If you can feel it, don’t hide your flame,
Say my name like you mean my name.
We’re not a headline, not somebody’s trend
We’re hands in the dark reaching out again.
In the loudest quiet, I won’t disappear
I’m right here.

(Verse 2)

I’ve seen soft hearts learn armor too well,
Smiling polite like a personal hell.
We joke about drowning, we laugh it away,
While mercy gets postponed to some other day.
I watched a friend turn their hope into dust,
Not from bad love just a life without trust.
And I swear I’m done calling numbness peace,
That’s not relief it’s a slow release.

(Pre-Chorus)

So if your chest feels heavy with weather inside,
If you’re sick of surviving in quiet disguise
Let the truth be ugly, let it come out uneven,
Better a crack of real than a heart that wont stop screaming.

(Chorus)

This is the loudest quiet I’ve ever known,
A million voices and I’m alone.
If you can feel it, don’t hide your flame,
Say my name like you mean my name.
We’re not a headline, not somebody’s trend
We’re hands in the dark reaching out again.
In the loudest quiet, I won’t disappear
I’m right here.

(Bridge)

Bring the strings like a storm at the window,
Bring the drum like a door kicked in slow.
Let the choir rise like amen for the broken,
Let the truth hit hard, but keep us open.
I don’t need perfect I need real.
I don’t need saving just let me feel.

(Final Chorus)

This is the loudest quiet I’ve ever known,
A million voices and I’m alone.
If you can feel it, don’t hide your flame,
Say my name like you mean my name.
We’re not a headline, not somebody’s trend
We’re hands in the dark reaching out again.
In the loudest quiet, I won’t disappear
I’m right here
I’m right here.

(Outro)

So when the room goes cold and the signal fades,
Hold to the human, not the masquerade.
Let silence be sacred not in a cage
And let your voice come back with grace.