[STYLE: Post-rock, slacker rock, minimal post-rock, atmospheric dub] [TEMPO: Slow, deep, hypnotic groove] [MOOD: Intimate, raw, soulful, restrained, gradually overwhelming] [INTRO – sparse clean guitar melody, deep dub bass, long delay tails, distant atmospheric textures] [VERSE 1 – close, understated male vocal] There's a word behind the laughter There's a crack beneath the smile There's a truth we keep postponing That has waited for a while We can talk about the weather We can talk about the news We can fill a room with talking And say nothing that's the truth [VERSE 2 – subtle percussion enters, bass grows warmer] There's a father getting older With apologies unsaid There's a friend who stopped returning There's a goodbye left for dead There's a thousand little moments Where we nearly let things show Then we turn away and carry What we never let them know [PRE-CHORUS – distant synth swells, echoing guitar notes] And the silence keeps on growing Like a shadow down the hall Till the thing we never mention Becomes the biggest thing of all [CHORUS – drums open up, layered guitars, emotional but restrained] It's the things we never say That keep pulling us apart All the words we leave behind All the locks upon the heart We can live a thousand years With a truth we never face Building walls around the silence Till there's nothing left to say It's the things we never say The things we never say [INSTRUMENTAL – clean guitar motif repeats, dub bass and echo-heavy percussion, distorted guitar slowly emerges] [VERSE 3 – groove drops back, vocal intimate and imperfect] Some are frightened of the damage Some are frightened of the change Some would rather live with distance Than risk seeing things rearranged So we learn to read the silence We invent what others mean And the space between two people Fills with everything unseen [PRE-CHORUS – muted drums, guitar delay widening] Maybe no one meant to hurt us Maybe no one knew the way Maybe everybody's carrying Something they could never say [CHORUS – fuller drums, distorted guitar layers, haunting backing vocals] It's the things we never say That keep pulling us apart All the words we leave behind All the locks upon the heart We can live a thousand years With a truth we never face Building walls around the silence Till there's nothing left to say It's the things we never say The things we never say [BRIDGE – drums fall away, just bass, clean guitar and close vocal] One day there may be no more chances No more ordinary days No more sitting at the table Thinking time will make a way And the words we kept for later Will have nowhere left to go Just the weight of all the moments When we almost let them show [BUILD – heavy drums return gradually, distorted guitars rise, bass remains deep and steady] Say it badly Say it scared Say the thing that's waiting there Drop the armour Drop the act You can't bring a moment back [FINAL CHORUS – expansive post-rock wall of sound, layered raw vocals] It's the things we never say That keep pulling us apart All the words we leave behind All the locks upon the heart We don't need the perfect words We don't need to know the way Sometimes all it takes is breaking Through the silence of a day It's the things we never say That we carry to the grave [OUTRO – vocals recede into delay, distorted guitars dissolve, deep bass and clean guitar remain] All this time All these years All the words Still waiting here [Long dub delays trail off into silence] [FADE OUT]
