[Intro] The silence learned my name Said it like it knew me Before I knew myself [Verse 1] You barely changed your tone Just something small, off-line A pause I couldn’t place Or maybe I assigned It shouldn’t feel like this It’s nothing I can prove But something in your silence Felt like something moved [Pre-Chorus] It’s in the way it lingers In something I can’t trace A weight I can’t remember But I still feel its shape [Chorus] It breaks every shield I place Leads me somewhere I won’t face It fuels my violence Then leaves me silent Tearing through the world I tried to make And it’s inside my reflection In a house of mirrors I answer to my own name [Post-Chorus] (You slipped through my hands) (Or did I let you go?) I heard you leaving— But I don’t know [Verse 2] I watched your silence stretch And tried to read its shape Every second widening Into something I can’t escape My heart forgot its rhythm Stumbled over air Like it was trying to warn me Of something that’s not there And after comes the quiet— That slow, familiar hue A kind of ennui settling In everything I hear from you [Pre-Chorus] It’s getting harder to ignore it Every silence cuts the same I try to call it nothing— But it answers to my name [Chorus] It breaks every shield I place Leads me somewhere I won’t face It fuels my violence Then leaves me silent Tearing through the world I tried to make And it’s inside my reflection In a house of mirrors I answer to my own name [Bridge] But in my fear, I let you go I felt it happen, I should know— But through uncertainty You were taken from me I built the ending from your tone Or maybe it was always there alone I know it doesn’t make sense I hear it when I speak Two truths inside my chest— Both cutting just as deep [Final Chorus] It breaks every shield I place Leads me somewhere I won’t face It fuels my violence Then leaves me silent Tearing through the world I tried to make And it’s inside my reflection In a house of mirrors I answer to my own name [Outro] The silence learned my name And I still answer to it
