**LYRICS — “WHEN THE ROOM GOES QUIET”** [Verse 1] I can hear the city breathing Static through another sleepless dawn Everybody wants a piece of me But none of them know what’s wrong I wear my smile like armor plating Laugh loud enough to hide the ache But every night behind the screen glow There’s only so much a man can fake And then you happened Like a match inside a locked-up room Now everywhere I turn I’m haunted by the thought of you [Pre-Chorus] You move like you already know me Like you can see beneath the skin And I keep trying not to need you While letting you further in [Chorus] It’s when the room goes quiet When the lights die down When the voices disappear And there’s nobody around That I feel you closest Like a hand around my soul And God, I want to run from it But losing you feels worse somehow You don’t even realize What you do to me How you make a tired man Dream dangerously [Verse 2] There are days I think about leaving Dropping all the weight I carry down But I keep building higher walls While secretly hoping you tear them down You make me feel exposed Like all the masks stopped working right Like maybe I’ve been surviving Instead of living my whole life And it scares me How peaceful your voice can make me feel Because peace was never something I believed was real [Pre-Chorus] You look at me like I’m still human Not just what I can provide And I think that’s why I’m terrified You’ll see how broken I am inside [Chorus] It’s when the room goes quiet When the morning hits When exhaustion pulls the truth Past my fingertips That I replay your laughter Like a prayer inside my chest And every version of my future Looks better if you’re in it You don’t even realize How deep this goes for me How you became the one thing I can’t control completely [Bridge] I tried to bury this feeling Under work, under noise, under neon light Tried to drown it in strangers And endless nights But somehow you kept reaching me Past all the distance and doubt And the worst part is I think you’d still love me If you knew everything about me now [Final Chorus] So when the room goes quiet And there’s nowhere left to hide I let myself imagine What it’d feel like by your side No performance No cameras No battle left to win Just your heartbeat in the dark And finally letting someone in You feel like home In a life that never stops moving And maybe that’s why losing you Feels impossible already [Outro] Everybody sees the spotlight Nobody sees the cost But you looked at me once And somehow found The parts I thought were lost
