(Verse 1)

I see you standing in the shadow of a broken ring

Claiming that the silence is a brand new sting

You talk of toxic ties and how you’re in dire need

While planting all the thorns of a controlling seed

But I remember when we met, you had a survivor’s pride

Now you’ve traded in your strength for a different side

Trying to pull the strings of every heart in the room

Wrapping up your ego in a shroud of gloom.

(Chorus)

But everyone is carrying a heavy wooden cross

The world is turning circles in a sea of loss

You aren't the only one feeling midnight blue

There’s a deeper kind of mourning passing right by you

It’s the heartache that’s breathing, walking on the ground

The kind of grief that screams without making a sound.

(Verse 2)

There’s a pain that isn't buried in the cold, hard clay

It isn't tucked in heaven a million miles away

It’s the loss of a child who still draws breath

A living kind of silence that feels like death

When your own damn kin say you don’t fit in

And you’re forced to wear the shame of a phantom sin

They’re out there living, they’re breathing the air

But the door is bolted shut like you were never there.

(Bridge)

That’s a sting to the core, a salt in the vein

When the ones who should love you walk away in the rain

Not untouchable spirits, not ghosts in the mist

But people still here who choose not to exist

In the spaces you inhabit, in the life that you lead

While you’re over there crying 'bout a marriage in greed

I can see right through the story you sell

Of a "relationship fail" and a personal hell.

(Chorus)

Yeah, everyone is carrying a heavy wooden cross

The world is turning circles in a sea of loss

You aren't the only one feeling midnight blue

There’s a deeper kind of mourning passing right by you

It’s the heartache that’s breathing, walking on the ground

The kind of grief that screams without making a sound.

(Outro)

So keep your control and your manufactured tears

I’ve been eyeing the truth through these lonely years

The hardest part of love isn't the ones we lose to the sky

It’s the ones still here who never say goodbye

Just the silence...

Yeah, the silence speaks clear.