When the House Goes Quiet by Gem

[Intro – distant piano, soft room ambience] …everyone finally asleep… and I’m still awake… [Verse 1] Kitchen light still glowing gold, half-read stories left unfolded… Coffee cup gone cold again, but I still feel where you’ve been… Footsteps faded down the hall, echo soft against the walls… Funny how a house this big still feels small when nightfall hits… [Pre-Chorus – slow emotional rise] I hear the silence breathe… like it remembers everything… Every laugh… every fight… still alive in the light… [Chorus – BIG emotional release] When the house goes quiet… I still hear your heartbeat… Through the walls, through the dark… like a song still inside me… When the world slows down… and the shadows get heavy… This home still glows… because you’re here with me… [Verse 2] Pool water dancing on the ceiling, midnight air through open screens… Somewhere upstairs someone’s singing, soft enough to haunt my dreams… Maybe love looks just like this… Not perfection… just existence… Everyone tangled up together… trying hard to last forever… [Pre-Chorus] I hear the silence breathe… like it carries memories… Every room… every scar… made us who we are… [Chorus – fuller, layered harmonies] When the house goes quiet… I still hear your heartbeat… Through the walls, through the dark… like a song still inside me… When the world slows down… and the shadows get heavy… This home still glows… because you’re here with me… [Bridge – stripped, intimate] No throne… No crown… Just all of us… here now… [Final Chorus – cinematic emotional lift] When the house goes quiet… I still feel the warmth around me… Every light, every voice… every soul that found me… When the night runs deep… and tomorrow feels unsteady… This home still stands… because you’re here with me… [Outro – fading piano + room tone] …goodnight… don’t drift too far…