When the Room Goes Quiet

The light on the floor looks colder tonight

Your name still hangs in the air like a fight

A trace of your shadow you left in the blue

And I keep missing the version of you

That said forever like it meant something true

I held on tighter, you pulled away

I learned how to break in

Beautiful way

Now every heartbeat is asking why

Why the love I gave was the one that died

And it hits, it hits like a wave through my chest

All the words I swallow are breaking the rest

I was sold, I was brave, I was caught in the flame

Now I'm standing in the ashes and calling your name

Oh, I love like a storm, then I fall to the floor

Then I rise in the wreckage and want you no more

But my heart keeps on singing what my hands can't hold

A little bit shattered

A little bit bold

I was silenced like a second skin

Through the cracks while the losing satin

Every room we loved has gone hollow and pale

Every memory burns and refuses to fail

So I can hear what you never said

The echo of goodbye in the back of my head

I held on tighter, you pulled away

I learned how to break in a beautiful way

Now every heartbeat is asking why

Why the love I gave was the one that died

And it hits, it hits like a wave from my chest

All the words I swallowed are breaking the rest

I was soft, I was brave, I was holding the flame

Now I'm standing in the ashes and calling your name

Oh, I love like a storm, then I fall to the floor

Then I rise in the wreckage and want you no more

But my heart keeps on singing when my hands can't hold

A little bit shattered, a little bit bold

If I scream into the dark, will it finally leave?

Will the ghosts in your goodbye unclench their teeth?

I'll let you in, I'll let you go

I'll let the pain become the shape I know

But beneath all the hurt, there's a spark in me

Something wide open, something free

And it hits, it hits like a wave to my chest

But I'm not the same as the one you left

I was made up of pieces you tried to erase

Now I'm a fire in the ruin, a storm with a face

So I love like a storm and I learned how to stand

With the ache in my throat and the truth in my hand

But my heart is a wound, let it sing, let it glow

I was broken in silence

Now I'm letting it show