(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.