[Intro – soft piano, distant ambience] When the house is quiet And the hallway lights are low When the dishes are all done And the television’s glow Has faded into darkness And the night begins to breathe That’s when the weight of every day Finally catches up with me When the world stops asking questions When no one needs a thing When the noise of being strong Finally stops its endless ring That’s when the silence finds me Sitting on the edge of sleep With a thousand quiet memories And promises I couldn't keep I think about my daughters And the life I'm trying to build Wondering if the man I am Is stronger than my will I think about the choices Every road I didn’t take Every moment in the daylight Where I smiled but felt the break And the house keeps breathing softly Like it knows the things I hide Every quiet second stretching All the thoughts I push aside The bills, the fears, the future The things I never say The cracks beneath the armor That I carry through the day And sometimes I feel small here In the quiet of the night Like the man the world keeps asking for Is losing every fight But somewhere in the stillness Between doubt and morning light I remember why I keep going Why I stand back up and fight Because tomorrow when the sun returns And the house begins to wake Little voices will come running And small hands will reach to take And the man who sat here breaking In the silence of the night Will stand up once again And pretend he's always alright Until the house grows quiet again
