[Intro - breathy, intimate] There’s a language beneath my tongue A constellation behind my gaze I have mastered the architecture of retreat Now I’m dismantling it [Verse 1 - restrained, hypnotic] I moved through rooms like an afterimage A fleeting shape nobody could hold Measured my words against invisible verdicts And folded my questions into the cold But something feral learned my cadence Something ancient breached the veil The hush that once imprisoned me Has finally begun to exhale [Pre-Chorus - tension rising] Watch me cross the threshold Watch the silence fracture I am done translating myself Into something easier to swallow [Chorus - commanding, expansive] Unleash the silent voice Let it rupture the stillness No more veiling those reticent eyes No more negotiating my existence I have a vocabulary of thunder And a pulse that will not recede What once lived beneath my breath Now answers to me [Verse 2 - darker, deliberate] I abandoned the ritual of diminishment The careful choreography of restraint No longer polishing my edges To make my presence less opaque Let every syllable arrive unvarnished Let every gaze withstand mine I spent too long inhabiting the margins Now I occupy the entire line [Pre-Chorus - building] Let the old architecture collapse Let every borrowed measure disappear I have nothing left to translate For anyone who refuses to hear [Chorus - larger] Unleash the silent voice Let it rupture the stillness No more veiling those reticent eyes No more negotiating my existence I have a vocabulary of thunder And a pulse that will not recede What once lived beneath my breath Now answers to me [Bridge - nearly whispered, suspended] These eyes were never timid They were gathering evidence This voice was never absent It was becoming inevitable [Final Chorus - explosive, full instrumentation] Unleash the silent voice Let the atmosphere remember me No more veiling those reticent eyes No more asking permission to be seen I am done with half-lit language Done with disappearing between words The woman who once swallowed every sentence Has become impossible to mute [Outro - instrumentation collapses, low and deliberate] I have nothing left to conceal Nothing left to abbreviate Let the silence keep what it was given I am reclaiming every syllable Every glance Every unspoken thing [Long pause] And if my voice unsettles the quiet… Let it.
