(Verse 1) They say a man’s life’s easy, cold and numb, No tears to shed, no place we’re from, No heart that breaks, no pain to hide, Like nothing ever lives inside. But it’s the opposite, if truth be told, We feel every word like winter cold, Every touch, every look, every turning away, We just bury it deeper day by day. (Pre-Chorus) We bleed in silence, unseen at night, Smile in the dark, pretend we’re alright… (Chorus) I’m breaking in silence, I’m strong in the light, Fighting my tears in the dead of the night, You think we don’t feel, but we carry it all, Every wound, every bruise, every rise and every fall. We don’t stop loving, we just stop showing the pain, Wear our scars like invisible chains, And when we go quiet, it’s not that we don’t care— It’s that no one was ever there. (Verse 2) Then they ask, “Why don’t men make the first move now? Why don’t they come and speak somehow?” Dear ladies, listen, I’ll tell you why, Because too many times we were shut down dry. We stepped forward and got called names, Felt the sting, the fear, the shame, Called a creep for just saying hi, So little by little, the courage died. Sometimes it’s “I have a man,” Sometimes it’s rejection we barely withstand, And every time it cuts so deep, Another scar we silently keep. (Pre-Chorus) So now we walk with our heads down low, Eyes on the ground, nowhere else to go… (Chorus) That’s why we walk in silence, pass you by, Keep every storm behind our eyes, Too tired to fight what broke us before, Too tired to knock on another closed door. We tried and tried till the hurt remained, Till effort and fear became the same, So now we wait behind these walls, Because falling again hurts most of all. (Bridge) If you want to know us, then come and speak, Don’t expect the strong to always lead, Sometimes strength is what survives the pain, Sometimes silence is a shield for the rain. We’re human too, we hurt, we bleed, We break beneath what no one sees, And every day we carry more Than what our tired hearts were built for. (Final Chorus) So don’t ask why we stopped trying, When inside we’ve been slowly dying, We’re not cold, we’re not made of stone, We just got used to standing alone. And if you really want to know what’s true— We went quiet because pain taught us to.
