[Intro] [Verse 1] Used to think the quiet was empty Just a room with nothing to say. But there's a roar behind the silence Of all the words that cancel away. The bottle sits there like an answer To a question I never asked right. It's not what I'm adding to the darkness It's what I'm subtracting from the light. [Chorus] Every sound is something missing Every noise, a broken pair. I'm not hearing what you're saying I'm just hearing what's not there. And I've been filling up with absence Pouring out what should remain. What I call the music Is just perfectly balanced pain. [Verse 2] You said I was sculpting a disaster Chipping away at what we had. But I wasn't adding to the wreckage Just revealing what was already bad. Now I sit with noise-cancelling headphones Try to engineer the past away. But some debts can't be silenced Some opposites won't stay. [Bridge] The universe, it listens To all of our mistakes. Every bottle's just an echo Of the symmetry that breaks. I'm not adding to the nothing I'm revealing what was whole. The space between the frequencies The God-shaped, long-necked hole. [Verse 3] So here's to incompleteness To the debts we'll never pay. To the anti-noise that's missing From the things we'll never say. I'm learning that acceptance Isn't filling up what's gone. It's hearing all the silence As a different kind of song. [Final Chorus] Every sound is something missing Every noise, a broken pair. I'm not hearing what you're saying I'm just hearing what's not there. And I've been filling up with absence Pouring out what should remain. What I call the music Is just everything that got away. [Outro] Used to think the quiet was empty Now I know it’s a room full of light. Not a hole where we’re missing But the space where we might be alright.
