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Keep your voice down

[Live outdoor festival] [singer speaks over crowd] les ba fon on ne baisse pas la voix ce soir !!! j'veux qu'on nous entende jusqu'à la haute vil !!!!!!!!!!! [Crowd roars, clapping in tempo] [Band hits first chord | crowd bleed continues into Verse 1] [verse | vocal intimate, restrained | instrumental minimal drums + ambient guitar | energy : controlled tension] keep your voice down, you don’t need to say it so loud the walls are thin at night and some things last longer when they’re quiet we’re better like this, close, careful, out of reach no need to give them reasons no need to make it harder than it is [pre-chorus | vocal rising emotion | instrumental build with toms + bass swell | energy : building] it’s not about hiding, it’s about staying safe about choosing the easy way so nothing breaks [crowd louder] [chorus | vocal powerful, open | instrumental full band wide + strong kick | energy : explosive] i don’t want to keep us hidden i don’t want love that learns to bend [crowd screams] we shouldn’t live like we’re forbidden like every word is something to defend i don’t want to stay inside the shadows pretending this is all we get [crowd sings] if loving you means staying silent, then tell me why the silence feels like debt [verse | vocal steady, firmer tone | instrumental groove-driven drums + muted guitar | energy : contained drive] keep your voice down, no one’s asking you to disappear just don’t push it too far just don’t make it clear there’s nothing wrong with patience, nothing wrong with knowing when to wait some doors stay open longer when you don’t knock too hard [pre-chorus | vocal strained, emotional lift | instrumental rising cymbals + bass tension | energy : surge] it’s just for now, just for us you’ll see with time how love survives when it adjusts [crowd chant: “let it out”] [chorus | vocal raw and bigger | instrumental full power + added harmonies | energy : massive] [crowd sings] i don’t want to keep us hidden i don’t want safety built on fear [crowd screams] our love shouldn’t need permission to exist, to breathe, to be right here i don’t want to lower every feeling just to fit the shape you need [crowd louder] if being with you means staying quiet, then maybe quiet isn’t what i need [bridge | vocal exposed then growing | instrumental stripped piano + gradual band return | energy : emotional tension] you call it care, you call it sense you say it’s love to stay intense but small but i hear something underneath it, every time you ask me not to shine [crowd claps] and i wonder how much of me you’re asking me to leave behind [chorus | vocal maximal, sustained belts | instrumental full band + crash accents | energy : peak] i don’t want to keep us hidden [crowd screams] i don’t want a love that stays afraid not forbidden, not diminished, not something we’re supposed to trade i want us out in the open [crowd chant: “no more fear”] i want a light that doesn’t lie if loving you means staying silent, then tell me who that silence is for [outro | vocal firm, liberated | instrumental drums heavy + final sustained chords | energy : triumphant] keep your voice down, you say it like it’s care [crowd louder] i lift my head, and for the first time i don’t lower mine !!!! [final hit]