[Verse 1] Sirens fade into the street Dust settles where we used to speak Nothing moves, but nothing’s right The calm cuts deeper than the fight I thought the noise was what I feared But standing still makes everything clear No echo left to drown the sound Of what’s still broken all around [Pre-Chorus] When the damage stops screaming loud It finally learns how to talk [Chorus] The quiet is worse, it stays too long No distraction left to lean upon No smoke to hide the scars we earned The quiet is worse No hands to shake, no lies to sell No noise to keep us from ourselves When nothing’s left to overhear The quiet is worse [Verse 2] Empty rooms remember weight Every choice we couldn’t negate What survived the fall still stands Asking more than we had planned The world didn’t end, it just went still Left us staring at what it will Every truth without a sound Hits harder when it comes around [Pre-Chorus] When the ground stops moving fast You feel the cracks you ran right past [Chorus] The quiet is worse, it stays too long No distraction left to lean upon No smoke to hide the scars we earned The quiet is worse No hands to shake, no lies to sell No noise to keep us from ourselves When nothing’s left to overhear The quiet is worse [Bridge – Sparse, Reflective] If this feels like standing alone It’s only truth without a tone No one left to blame or chase Just the shape we couldn’t erase [Final Chorus – Wider, Calm] The quiet is worse, it holds the truth Nothing left to prove or lose No sound to say what we became The quiet is worse When everything that burned is gone What remains keeps moving on No comfort here, no sudden cure The quiet is worse
