[INTRO] (Rhodes alone) There's a moment... right before you fall asleep... when everything you spent the whole day avoiding comes looking for you. [VERSE 1] When the world goes quiet I can finally hear my heart All the things I kept distracted from Come looking for their part I hear my mother's voice I hear my father's doubt I hear every door I closed And every road I walked out I hear the girl I used to be Asking what happened to her dreams And for the first time I don't tell her That life isn't what it seems I just listen. [CHORUS] When the world goes quiet I can hear myself again Underneath the noise Underneath the maybes Underneath the "what ifs" And the "when" When the world goes quiet I don't have to pretend Maybe peace isn't silence Maybe peace is finally Making friends with who you've been. [VERSE 2] I used to think forgiveness Meant forgetting what was done Now I think it's looking backward Without wishing you had won Some people never loved me Some people couldn't stay Some people gave me pieces They didn't know they gave away And I gave away some pieces too Trying to become somebody new Funny how you spend your whole life Running from yourself... Only to discover You were the one worth coming back to. [CHORUS] When the world goes quiet I can hear myself again Underneath the noise Underneath the maybes Underneath the "what ifs" And the "when" When the world goes quiet I don't have to pretend Maybe peace isn't silence Maybe peace is finally Making friends with who you've been. [BRIDGE] (brushes fade almost completely) So forgive yourself. For the years you didn't know. For the love you couldn't give. For the doors you had to close. For every time you stayed too long. For every time you left too soon. For every person you became Just to make it through the room. (pause) You made it. You're here. That's enough. [FINAL CHORUS] When the world goes quiet I can finally breathe Nothing left to prove Nothing left to hide Nothing chasing me Nothing I need to leave When the world goes quiet I don't feel alone I hear something underneath it all... And it sounds like home. [OUTRO] (Hammond slowly rises) Maybe home was never somewhere I had to find. Maybe home... was the part of me I kept leaving behind. (Rhodes) Goodnight. (long silence)
