[Instrumental Intro] [Footsteps] ... [Two gavel strikes] ... [calm spoken] Guilty... ... [Low pipe organ drone] [Sub-bass enters] … [soft sing] The sin of your sloth... Gave my wrath a body... ... [Verse 1] I kept waiting by the doorway... Hoping someone knew my name... Every passing day grew quieter... Every hour stayed the same... I learned hope can starve a child... Long before the body breaks... Some wounds never start with violence... Only promises never made... Every minute asked a question... Every answer turned away... I stopped listening for footsteps... When no footsteps ever came... [Pre-Chorus] You called it standing still... I called it choosing sides... You never raised a hand... You only lowered your eyes... [Chorus] The loudest thing you ever said... Was silence in reply... You thought doing nothing meant... You never chose a side... You mistook your silence for innocence... I entered it as evidence... You thought you never chose a path... The sin of your sloth... Materialized my wrath... [Verse 2] Every room became a prison... Not because it held me there... But because the door stayed open... And no one seemed to care... Every face became a window... Every gaze passed over me... I stopped asking to be rescued... When no one chose to see... You never joined the violence... You only gave permission... No blood upon your hands... Just fingerprints on the silence... [Pre-Chorus] History remembers monsters... But forgets who watched them happen... Every verdict starts in silence... Long before the sentence lands... [Chorus] The loudest thing you ever said... Was silence in reply... You thought looking away meant... You never chose a side... You mistook your silence for innocence... I entered it as evidence... You thought you never chose a path... The sin of your sloth... Materialized my wrath... [Bridge] A cry behind the curtains... While every window watched... You thought somebody else would answer... So nobody ever stopped... ... Maybe... You thought someone else... Would come... ... Maybe... You thought looking away... Would change nothing... ... You waited for a hero... I waited for one person... ... You stood together... I suffered alone... ... Inaction built the scaffold... Silence never swung the blade... The guillotine required no hands... Only choices never made... [Final Chorus] You never raised a hand... You only lowered your eyes... The loudest thing you ever said... Was silence in reply... You thought doing nothing... Meant you never chose a path... But silence rendered judgment... And left me the aftermath... The sin of your sloth... Materialized my wrath... [Outro] [Percussion fades] [Pipe organ sustains] Everyone watched me breaking... Only one person looked... ... You called yourselves innocent... Until you chose to watch... ... Silence was never empty... It carried every choice... I stopped believing help would come... When no one used their voice... ... [Two distant gavel strikes] ... [calm spoken] Guilty...
