Quiet Is How I Stay

Verse

Empty coffee cup on the desk below

Static hums where the speakers used to go

Rain ticks out a rhythm on the roof above

Same four bars I've been humming since June

Your jacket still hung by the door in blue

Packed it up but couldn't bring you

Grey sky, grey light, nothing left to chase

Just this quiet and an open space

Pre-Chorus

So what do I call this when it settles down

Is it a feeling or just a town without a sound

I'm not scared of being still

It's just the first time in weeks that I can fill

Chorus

Quiet is how I stay alive now

Static turns to silence, slow and low

No rush, no noise, no name, no crowd

Just me and the hush where the daylight goes down

Where does a body learn to be still enough

To let the quiet find it instead of enough

Verse 2

Old guitar strings curled like they forgot to ring

Stacks of paper with nothing left to write

Streetlights click off one by one, then pause

City breathing slow like it's learned its own cause

I moved my boots from the floor where you'd stand near

Now I'm just standing here without you here

Pre-Chorus

So what do I call this when it settles down

Is it a feeling or just a town without a sound

I'm not scared of being still

It's just the first time in weeks that I can fill

Chorus

Quiet is how I stay alive now

Static turns to silence, slow and low

No rush, no noise, no name, no crowd

Just me and the hush where the daylight goes down

Where does a body learn to be still enough

To let the quiet find it instead of enough

Bridge

I used to chase it as soon as I felt it slip

Now I'm learning how to hold on, not fight

The emptier room gets, the more I can hear myself

This is the only sound that's never coming back again

Outro

So I'll stay here till the quiet turns to grey

And then maybe stay a little longer anyway