SONG 4 — “Voices We Never Spoke”

Intro [piano hush] [whispered backing] We were surrounded by voices But none of them were ours --- Verse 1 [guitar plucks] You sat across from me With thoughts you wouldn’t touch Your fingers traced the coffee cup But never reached for us [soft bass rise] The silence wasn’t peaceful It was something we avoided Like every word we didn’t say Was waiting to explode inside us --- Pre-Chorus [double-layered vocal] And we lived in that tension Between truth and fear Pretending the unspoken Wasn’t filling up the air --- Chorus [FX vocal lift] These are the voices we never spoke The thoughts we buried to stay afloat All the things you felt but wouldn’t show All the things I carried alone [shadow octave voice] If love had a language We forgot how to say it These are the voices That could’ve saved us Before we broke --- Verse 2 [bass pulse] Your eyes kept drifting sideways Like you feared what mine would see I felt every sentence you swallowed Press against the space between [guitar resonance] You apologized too softly I forgave too quickly We both avoided the truth Because the truth was heavy --- Pre-Chorus 2 [whispered harmony] And the home turned hollow From the weight of what we hid We were sleeping in the aftermath Of conversations we never dared to begin --- Chorus [pitch-fall FX] These are the voices we never spoke All the things you whispered to yourself alone All the thoughts that trembled at your throat All the pain I tried to hold [double-layered chorus] If honesty had a cost We paid it slow These are the voices That broke the love We tried to grow --- Bridge [sub-bass + slow kick] You weren’t cruel, just frightened I wasn’t distant, just tired We kept hoping silence could heal What silence required [guitar swell] And the truth remained unsaid Until it shaped our fate You can’t save a love That’s too scared to communicate --- Final Chorus [FX vocal rise] These are the voices we never spoke Echoes of a future we never wrote Maybe we needed courage Maybe we needed hope [shadow voice low] But love can’t survive In a room with no words These are the voices That broke us first --- Outro [piano fade] The things we never said Are louder now than ever