Learned To Be Silent

📀 Learned To Be Silent V6.4.9 ✨ [Intro: Instrumental - Intimate Piano and Distant Pads in the Verses + Violin + Cello - Bars of Gentle Melody before the Voice enters] Mmmm…. Mmmm… Mmmm… [Verse 1] — I am speaking… But you’re, not listening… So I fold, my words… Hide them behind, my chest… I learned, to be silent… Let it bruise, my ribs inside… You bend, every story… ’til it fits, your favorite side… [Pre-Chorus 1] — It’s always, been your ways… How you choose, to see it… Then you point, at my memories.. Like they’re, something I invented… Since your memories, are never flawed… [Chorus 1] — You say you still love me… But where did you go? What happened to that closeness… We promised, we’d never let go? That electrifying touch… We thought, we couldn’t live without… Now it’s ashes, on my tongue… And I’m too tired, too tired… to shout… I learned to be silent…. You wore me down, to the ground…. That fiery, funny, strong girl, you used to know, and love… Slowly died, changed, from deep inside… [Verse 2] — You took me, for granted… I learned to be silent… You tossed, sharp words, like glass… I’m sweeping up, the pieces… Of the girl, I used to have… You say it’s all, in my mind… My feelings “came out wrong” But I’m bleeding, through my sweater… You’re too blind, to see it all… While you’re asking, what went wrong… [Pre-Chorus 2] — You turn every “I’m hurting” To “you’re overreacting” I shrink, in the doorway… While you’re busy, reenacting… [Chorus 2] — You say you still love me… But where did you go? What happened, to that closeness… We Promised, we’d never let go? That electrifying touch We thought we couldn’t live without… Now it’s trembling, in my hands Slipping through… Wearing out… Now I’m cringing… From scars, you left…. [Bridge] — Did you ever, really see me… Or just the mirror, you liked best? I keep writing, us in circles… I am trying my best… But my heart, can’t take the test… Although I do forgive you… I don’t know how, to get back… To the way we, used to be… ’Cause the road, to our beginning… Is buried under, what you did to me… (oh) [Chorus 3] — You say you still love me… But it echoes, through the cracks… I’m standing, in the ruins… Of a home, I can’t get back… That electrifying, touch… We thought…. we couldn’t, live without… I’d learned to be silent… Learned not to exist… If this is how you, love me… I’d rather, learn to live…. Live…. Learn to live… Learn to live, without… Mmm…. Mmm…. Mmm… Learn to live, without…. [Outro: Instrumental Ensemble, violin + cello - final single piano note, sustained, silence]