DOMESTIC SILENCE [Verse I — The House] The walls learned breathing before we did Drywall remembers every hit Floors flinch when footsteps change their weight Light bulbs flicker like they’ve heard this before There’s a clock that ticks too loud at night It counts apologies instead of time Every room holds its breath Every corner is complicit [Pre-Chorus] Silence isn’t empty It’s crowded with fear [Chorus — The Truth] Domestic silence isn’t quiet It’s screaming underground It seeps into the marrow It circles without a sound It doesn’t care who you are What name you answer to It poisons the hands that strike And the hearts that hold it too [Verse II — The One Who Hurts] I learned power from a broken place Mistook control for being safe I said I’d stop, I meant it then I meant it every time Anger dressed up like justice Fear put on a crown I didn’t wake up a villain I just kept not turning around [Pre-Chorus] Hurt doesn’t excuse hurt But it explains the echo [Chorus] Domestic silence isn’t quiet It’s screaming underground It rots the roots of love While keeping the garden sound It doesn’t pick sides It feeds on the truth It poisons the hands that strike And the hands that save them too [Verse III — The Survivor] I learned how to walk on glass barefoot How to smile like a shield How to apologize for nothing For breathing, for needing, for being real I kept the peace by breaking myself Called it strength, called it grace disappearing in front of your face [Pre-Chorus] Leaving isn’t weakness Staying wasn’t love [Chorus] Domestic silence isn’t quiet It’s screaming underground It brands your voice with static Till you forget how you sound It doesn’t care how strong you are Or what you’ve been through It poisons the ones who stay And the ones who finally leave you [Verse IV — The Children] We learned the weather from your voices We learned love from slammed doors We played games where quiet meant safe And loud meant hide on the floor We grew up fast, then never at all Still flinch at kindness, still brace for the fall We carry homes inside our bones And some of them are still at war [Pre-Chorus] What you call a bad night We call a childhood [Chorus] Domestic silence isn’t quiet It’s screaming underground It writes itself in nervous systems Long before words are found It doesn’t wait for healing It grows roots instead It poisons the future Before the past is even dead [Bridge — The Family, The Circle] We saw it We sensed it We swallowed our doubt Didn’t want to make waves Didn’t want to reach out We said “That’s just marriage” We said “That’s just stress” We watered the poison With our well-meaning silence [Spoken / Half-Sung] Silence is not neutral Silence chooses a side [Final Chorus — Everyone] Domestic silence isn’t quiet It’s screaming underground It spreads through generations It circles, it compounds It doesn’t care your gender Your age, your role, your name It poisons the whole damn system And calls it something else’s shame [Outro — The Break] But silence can shatter When truth learns to sing When hands stop clenching And start reaching This house can relearn These walls can forget The poison stops spreading The moment we face it [Soft, almost whispered] Silence ends When someone speaks
